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Aphanus rolandri Family: Lygaeidae A large and distinctive black ground bug with a dark red or orange spot at the base of the wing membrane; confusion with other species is unlikely. A. rolandri has been found in a variety of dry, sheltered and well-drained habitats which have a thin covering of leaf litter or stones, such as chalk pits, cliffsides and (historically) cultivated arable fields. Adults overwinter, becoming active in the spring when they undertake pre-mating flights. The new generation is complete by August.  A very scarce bug (Na) known primarily from the extreme south of England between Cornwall and Kent, with a scatter of records from further north.  Adult: All year Length 6-8 mm

Adult: Dungeness, Kent (1993) ©Roger Key