With the pitter patter of hailstones on my hood I was happy to let them bounce off as i played in the grass pile. Quedius cinctus, new to me and to the reserve, became the 32nd beetle of the year and the 24th new addition to the catalogue. It's quite a distinctive Quedius and the two parallel lines of punctures on the shiny elytrae mark it as being in its own subgenus.
What with ice and rain and domestic duties it's been a slow couple of days. Still, like the rain there's a steady drip of new additions. When I get my act together I'll definitely try to bring back a sample for filtering semi-properly.
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