An interesting-looking beetle was found at the actinic light trap in the garden of GRB in Tonbridge, Kent (TQ599454, VC 16). This was on 13 August 2022, already late in the season for most beetles. As "beetle by-catch", it was brought into the Natural History Museum, London for MFG to look at, in the hopes it could be something new to one of the ongoing DNA-sampling projects which the NHM is involved in. It turned out to be not only new to those projects, but a new record for the country.
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