Dasytes aeratus (Stephens, 1830)
Family: Melyridae
Size: 4.7 mm (4.0 to 5.2 mm)
Origin: Europe
Ecology: The larvae live in rotten wood, the beetles are found on flowering
shrubs
Location: England, Calke
leg.det. D.R.Nash, 29.V.1987
Coll. Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2018
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