Top row: Dicyrtomina ornata, Dicyrtomina minuta, Monobella grassei
Bottom row: Entomobrya intermedia, Orchesella cincta, Orchesella villosa
The big surprise on this trip was a single dark Dicyrtomina specimen with a solid patch of dark pigment at the posterior end of the abdomen similar to Dicyrtomina ornata, but unlike D. ornata the abdomen has an entirely purple ground colour with lighter orange reticulations. The head is lighter than the body, whereas in Dicyrtoma fusca the colour of the head is similar to the body. This seems to be a specimen of Dicyrtomina violacea, one of very few records from the UK:
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