Meligethes morosus

This was taken off a Scabious flowerhead but there is lots of the foodplant, White Dead-nettle, right next to where I found it. I tentatively keyed it to morosus but was far from sure and I'm not sure I would have recorded it had it been a female. Fortunately it wasn't a female and the genitalia backed up my initial identification. Even then it wasn't totally straightforward as the diagram in Duff shows the incision in the tegmen less deep, but the other species with similar-shaped tegmen have a more pointed median lobe (and a different internal pattern to the median lobe too). I found some photos labelled morosus at GBIF which had genitalia attached and although the photos are rather small it looks like at least one was similar to mine.

male Meligethes morosus showing its fore tibia, pronotum, clypeus (3 views), hind claw, base of elytra and aedeagus (multiple views of tegmen and median lobe), North Elmham railway (below the Cathedral Meadows) (Norfolk, UK), 22nd September 2023