Drymus pumilio
Drymus pumilio
Drymus pumilio is a particularly small, dull brown species, length 2.5-3mm. Small tooth on front femur; tibiae with hairs shorter than width of tibia; pronotum black anteriorly, brown posteriorly; forewings usually at least as long as the abdomen.
Other Lygaeids, especially Stygnocoris fuligineus, but this has a uniform series of fine erect spines at right angles to the
ventral face of the femur, c.f. a tooth.
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Chalk grassland, but also from wet grasslands and fens.
All year.
Found locally across southern and central England and parts of south Wales. (Nationally scarce NS (Nb) - ref. UK Heteroptera checklist 2021)
Not often recorded.
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