Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Sepedophilus constans (Fowler) - Nationally Scarce. Primarily associated with fungoid or
rotting wood; also reported from pasture and flood litter. North of Severn-Wash line,
largely boreo-montane.
Sepedophilus littoreus (L.)* - Rarely away from dead and decaying wood of some kind; also
in leaf and other vegetable litter; generally distributed in GB, largely in ancient
woodlands; Co. Derry; Holarctic.
Sepedophilus lusitanicus Hammond - Under pine Pinus logs and in pine litter; HQ in pine
area of Breckland, but also in band across to S Wales; principally Atlantic or broadly
Lusitanian (W. Europe).
Sepedophilus testaceus (F.) - Nationally Scarce. Largely rotten and fungoid hardwood,
associated primarily with ancient broad-leaved woodland; GB generally scarce and S
of Severn-Wash line; widespread in W. Palearctic.
Tachinus bipustulatus (F.) - RDB1. A predatory species, most often found at sap-flows from
broad-leaved trees, especially at goat moth Cossus sap runs. Formerly known from a
number of southern English sites, but appears to have declined and was last recorded
from Windsor Forest in 1930s.
Tachinus lignorum (L.) - Nationally Scarce. Most often reported from decaying fungi and at
sap; also in decaying wood frass, and horse dung.
Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae
Cypha imitator (Luze) – RDBK. In rotten wood of old beech Fagus stump & under sycamore
Acer pseudoplatanus bark; also in haystack litter.
Cypha seminulum (Erichson)* - RDBK. In rotting wood, fungi, under bark and in moss; elm
Ulmus and sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus. Britain & old possibly doubtful records
from Ireland.
Holobus (Oligota) apicatus (Erichson)* - Nationally Scarce. Occurs in bracket fungi on
trees: Stereum hirsutum, Polyporus squamosus, Trametes versicolor; possibly preys
on Cis beetle larvae; also recorded in leaf litter inside a hollow oak Quercus, under
beech Fagus bark, etc. Britain, widespread, & Co. Antrim.
Gyrophaena - Larvae feed on fungal spores.
Gyrophaena affinis Mannerheim* - In bracket fungi in woods. Britain & Ireland;
widespread.
Gyrophaena angustata (Stephens) - Nationally Scarce. In bracket fungi, e.g. Polyporus
squamosus on ash Fraxinus stump, and under bark.
Gyrophaena bihamata Thomson, C.G.* - On bracket fungi in woods. Very local in southern
Britain; Killarney.
Gyrophaena congrua Erichson - Nationally Scarce. In bracket fungi Polyporus squamosus,
Trametes versicolor, Pseudotrametes gibbosa.
Gyrophaena fasciata (Marsham)* - Bracket fungi in woods. Britain; widespread in Ireland
but rare.
Gyrophaena gentilis Erichson* - Bracket fungi in woods. Britain: widespread but local; &
Ireland: rare, in north.
Gyrophaena joyi Wendeler* - Nationally Scarce. Associated with wood-decaying fungi in
wet woodland, including Lentinus tigrinus and Polyporus squamosus. Southern
Britain & Co Down.
Gyrophaena latissima (Stephens)* - Amongst fungoid bark and on bracket fungi in woods.
Britain; widespread if rare in Ireland.
Gyrophaena lucidula Erichson - Nationally Scarce. In fungi on trees, incl. Lentinus tigrinus
and Gymnopilus junonius on ash Fraxinus stump. Wet woodlands.
Gyrophaena minima Erichson* - In small yellow fleshy fungus on dead stumps. Britain &
Ireland: Cos. Antrim & Sligo.
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