Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Periscelis (Microperiscelis) winnertzi Egger - RDB1. Reported at sap; larval biology
unknown. New Forest, Wyre Forest & Moccas Park.
Periscelis (Periscelis) nigra (Zetterstedt) - RDB1. Probably develops in sap runs, requires
confirmation. Spey Valley & elsewhere in Scotland; Yorkshire.
Asteiidae - Larvae in debris in hollow trees, etc.
Asteia amoena Meigen* - Feeds at ivy blossom and sap; develops in wood detritus, in hollow
trees, etc.
Astiosoma rufifrons Duda - RDB2. Attracted to cold wood ash; may feed at sap.
Leiomyza dudai Sabrosky - Has been reared from fungi, chiefly lignicolous.
Leiomyza laevigata (Meigen)* - Breeds in fungi including those on deadwood, eg Pleurotus
cornucopiae.
Leiomyza scatophagina (Fallén)* - Breeds in various fungi, including Polyporus squamosus.
Larvae have also been recorded from dried reed stems.
Milichiidae
Desmometopa palpalia (Wahlberg) - Reared from Cossus tree, Ulmus, at Barton Mills,
Suffolk, in 1909.
Madiza britannica Hennig - RDB2. Develops in wood detritus & rot holes; beech, sycamore,
poplar and elm.
Madiza pachymera Becker - RDB3. Previously confused with M. britannica. Most rearing in
fact relate to this species, which is commoner than britannica. Develops in rotten
wood of beech, birch and elm. Nine confirmed localities.
Neophyllomyza acyglossa (Villeneuve) – RDBK. Widespread in southern England,
especially frequent in Windsor and New Forests; adults usually found running about
on oak foliage. A few northern Scottish records, where puparia have been found in
moist decaying sapwood of birch. Only previous rearing record is from a birch water
trough affected by wet rot in Russia, together with larvae of the fly Lonchaea
limatula.
Neophyllomyza leanderi Hendel - All specimens known are from New Forest. Biology
unknown, but possibly deadwood associated if this is the regular habitat of
N.acyglossa.
Milichia ludens (Wahlberg) – RDBK. Associated with the tree-nesting ant Lasius fuliginosus.
Phyllomyza donisthorpei Schmitz - Associated with the tree-nesting ant Lasius fuliginosus.
Phyllomyza equitans (Hendel) - Associated with the tree-nesting ant Lasius fuliginosus.
Phyllomyza longipalpis (Schmitz) - Biology unknown but most records are from old forest
areas, especially Windsor and New Forests; adults running about on oak foliage; may
be associated with tree-nesting ants, Lasius brunneus being a possibility at some sites.
Carnidae
Meoneura neottiophila Collin* - Has been reared from bird nests and from the terrestrial
bolete Leccinum scabrum; adult males were found on caps of Pleurotus during survey
of Ashridge, Hertfordshire. According to A. Godfrey (pers.comm.) it has been found
on detritus below sap runs.
Chloropidae
Gaurax britannicus Deeming – RDBK. Reared from an elm log in Worcestershire; three
other records from southern England.
Gaurax dubius (Macquart) - Has been reared from birch polypore Piptoporus betulinus, and
the adult has been found resting under brackets of Trametes and Bjerkandera.
Gaurax fascipes Becker* - Reared from under bark in a dead branch; also recorded from
Piptoporus and from bird nests. Widely distributed in England and Wales; present in
Ireland.
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