Bloody-nosed Beetle

Timarcha tenebricosa

Common & widespread from May-September in Britain.

They are blue-black in colour and is both larger and more constricted on the base of its pronotum than the visually similar T. goettingensis (the Lesser Bloody-nosed Beetle).

The body is strongly curved, and elytra smooth and finely punctuated.

Its antennae are thick and well segmented, its legs have long tarsi and terminate with a double hook.