The beetles of decaying wood in Ireland - National Parks & Wildlife ...

Saproxylic beetles of Ireland
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H2 North Kerry: Kenmare Demesne (V99), a few specimens taken together in a damp, decaying tree
stump, between 18 & 25 July 1913, OEJ (Janson, 1914).
Ptinella aptera (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) – Rare old growth species
Under bark of decaying oak and beech wood.
H2 North Kerry: Killarney, EFB (Bullock, 1928).
Ptinella cavelli (Broun, 1893) – Established introduction
Under tight bark of dead broad-leaves and conifers; native to New Zealand, widespread in Britain and
the north of Ireland where first found in 1975 (Nash, Anderson & O’Connor, 1997).
Ptinella denticollis (Fairmaire, 1858) – Rare old growth species
Under tight bark of dead broad-leaved timber. Only a single record reported.
H2 North Kerry: Killarney, EFB (O’Mahony, 1929a).
Ptinella errabunda Johnson, 1975 – Established introduction
Under tight bark of most species of dead trees; probably native to New Zealand. Found abundantly by
RA in decaying wood in several parkland sites west of Belfast (Nash, Anderson & O’Connor, 1997).
H38 Down: Lagan Meadows, under bark of Scots pine, 27.xi.1992, RA.
H39 Antrim: Newforge, R. Lagan, under bark of rotting Japanese larch with fruiting decay fungus
Coniophora puteana, 20.x.1992, RA (Nash, Anderson & O’Connor, 1997); Ballyskeagh, Belfast, under
beech bark, 8.xii.1992, RA.
Ptinella limbata (Heer, 1841) – Rare old growth species
Under bark of various dead broad-leaved trees and conifers; old forest areas. This record may possibly
be an early observation of the tiny yellowish Antipodean species P. errabunda which RA finds
occasionally under pine bark in Northern Ireland but which is otherwise unreported from the south.
H21 Dublin: Tolka Valley, under bark on pine logs, JNH (Halbert, 1924).
Ptinella taylorae Johnson, 1977 – Established introduction
Under tight bark of dead trees; native to New Zealand; not uncommon in W. England & Ireland
(Johnson 1977).
H39 Antrim: Rea’sWood, Antrim, under alder bark, 21.x.2006, RA.
Pteryx suturalis (Heer, 1841) – Rare
Under bark and in rotten wood of dead broad-leaved trees, rarely in conifer.
H2 North Kerry: near Killarney, EFB (Bullock, 1928) (O’Mahony, 1929a).
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