Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

with slime fungi, with adults and larvae feeding on the spores. Species of Agathidium
are most likely primarily associated with slime fungi but the evidence is less clear.
Anisotoma castanea (Herbst) - Develops in slime fungi under bark on pine Pinus; a northern
species recorded from Caledonian pine forests.
Anisotoma glabra (F.) - Under fungoid bark on pine Pinus; a northern species not uncommon
in Caledonian pine forests, and recently found in Yorkshire.
Anisotoma humeralis (F.)* - Develops in slime fungi under bark on the trunks or fallen
boughs of dead trees, adults found in ripe powdery stage, also in bracket fungi;
widespread across British Isles, although scarcer in Ireland.
Anisotoma orbicularis (Herbst)* - Possibly a woodland species; widely distributed in Britain.
Amphicyllis globus (F.)* - In rotten, fungus-infested timber, mostly in ancient woodland areas
in south and east; records up to Northumberland; rare in Ireland.
Agathidium arcticum C. G. Thomson – RDBK. At slime moulds under fungoid bark, pine
Pinus and birch Betula; a northern species best known from Caledonian pine forests,
but also recently in SW Yorkshire.
Agathidium badium Erichson – RDBK. Thought to be associated with decaying timber; a
very few localities in the hill country of northern England.
Agathidium confusum Brisout – RDBI. In fungi on tree stumps; very few British records.
Agathidium nigrinum Sturm - Under bark on dead timber, usually associated with fleshy
fungi, but larval habitat unknown. Generally distributed in Britain, although very
local, and possibly a species of dense shady woodland conditions.
Agathidium nigripenne (F.)* - Usually under sappy bark of various dead broad-leaved trees
and conifers in woodland; also beaten from ivy Hedera blossom; widespread but
local; rare in Ireland.
Agathidium rotundatum Gyllenhal* - Develops in slime fungi on dead trees, broadleaves and
conifers. Possibly mainly a species of dense shady woodland. Widespread in Britain,
although local.
Agathidium seminulum (L.) - Associated with rotten wood, various broad-leaved trees, in
woodland; widespread in Britain, although local.
Agathidium varians Beck* - In piles of small branchwood, under bark on dead timber, damp
woodland leaf litter etc. Generally distributed in Britain, rare Ireland. Possibly a
species of dense shady woodland.
Nemadus colonoides (Kraatz) - Frequents the rot-holes in trees that have been used by birds
for nesting.
Scydmaenidae - Stone Beetles. Predatory on mites, in moist situations; a few frequent
decaying wood.
Eutheia formicetorum Reitter - RDB1. In moist crumbly dead wood and wood mould,
particularly beech Fagus and oak Quercus; has been found with brown tree ant Lasius
brunneus; southern old forests: Windsor, New Forest, and the ancient neglected
coppice of Prattle Wood, Oxon.
Eutheia linearis Mulsant - RDB1. Under dead bark and in moist crumbly dead wood,
especially mature oak Quercus; old forest areas: Sherwood, Windsor, New Forest, and
unconfirmed records elsewhere.
Neuraphes plicicollis Reitter - Nationally Scarce. Mainly subcortical, in rotten wood; also in
decaying beech Fagus leaf litter and in Sphagnum moss.
Stenichnus bicolor (Denny)* - Under bark and in moist crumbly decaying timber of various
dead trees; widespread in Britain, but apparently absent from East Anglia and much of
the eastern Midlands; mostly in ancient wood pastures.
Stenichnus godarti (Latreille) - RDB3. Only in areas of ancient woodland and forest, usually
under bark and in moist crumbly wood of old hollow fallen trees of oak Quercus and
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