I visited a small area of woodland beside the road at Ingarsby. Conditions were very dry so I started by sampling as close to the stream as I could. This yielded two
Dicyrtomina saundersi, plus numerous
Orchesella cincta,
Tomocerus vulgaris and lots of
Lepidocyrtus lignorum (predominantly pale with faint traces of blue pigment on the head, thorax and legs; scales present on the legs and ant1+ant2, no scales on ant3+ant4 (c.f.
L. curvicollis); eyepatch roundish (less elongate than other species); no interocular macrosetae):
I also sampled the trunks of several Ash trees and the moss on them. Here
Orchesella cincta was very abundant but there were also quite a few
Tomocerus vulgaris. Although it is regarded as a common species, I don't record
T. vulgaris as often as I see
Tomocerus minor:
However, the scales are easily lost, these specimens were confirmed by the presence of simple (rather than three-pointed) spines on the dens:
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