12.01.19 - Church Langton

Another foray into the Lutterworth Triangle. A bag of leaf litter yielded a single Entomobrya nicoleti, a few Orchesella villosa and lots of Dicyrtomina saundersi. Also present were quite a few Isotomids. At first sight, it would have been easy to put these all down as Isotoma viridis, but examination of the manubrial teeth revealed two pairs, meaning that all these specimens were actually Isotoma anglicana or Isotoma caerulea (not determined):


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