Thanks to the longsuffering Mark Gurney via iRecord this botched ID was redetermined to Coelositona cambricus, which is new to the reserve, new to me, and apparently new to the county.
I failed in Duff on this because I read the "pubescence" as "scales" (isn't the "pubescence" made of scales? anyway ...). Also in Morris because I didn't think it had a pattern. With hindsight I can just about make out a degree of tessellation. Maybe when you spend months in a grass pile it's not as obvious as it might otherwise be. Yes, that's an excuse.
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