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Notaris scirpi

I found this quite tricky using both Hackston and Duff. I got to Erirhinidae fairly quickly using Hackston but then made a mistake in that key and reverted to Curculionidae. ObsIdentify had been 100% certain it was Dorytomus longimanus but the absence of femoral teeth seemed to rule out that whole genus. Having got nowhere but dead-ends keying it as Curculionidae I eventually turned to Google Lens for inspiration. One promising suggestion was Notaris scirpi and that got me back to keying Erirhinidae, and in turn to Notaris scirpi.


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Notaris scirpi showing close-up of antennae, tarsal claws, front tibia tip, front margin of pronotum, interocular distance, pronotum from side and top amd prosternal foremargin, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 11th August 2023