Agriotes acuminatus

This is a brown click beetle, the head often appearing darker than the elytra. Ridges are visible running the length of the elytra. The legs and antennae are a light brown colour.

Dalopius marginatus is very similar but is usually more reddish brown and has thinner, almost filamentous antennae.

• 6.5-7.5mm
• Pronotum parallel-sided and shiny – dark brown but paler hind angles
• Elytra brown, darkening towards the suture, with fine striae
• Yellow flat hairs throughout
• Yellow-brown legs and antennae

A wide range of habitats, predominantly broadleaved woodland but also agricultural land, grasslands and scrub and gardens.

Adults emerge in May and can be present into July.

Larvae develop in soil, feeding on the roots of a range of grass species.

Widely distributed and fairly frequent in England and Wales. Very few, scattered records from Scotland.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.