Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Gyrophaena munsteri Strand – RDBK. In fruiting bodies of wood-rotting fungi, incl.
polypores & gill fungi, but also the non-wood-rotter Hebeloma saccharoliens.
Southern Britain.
Gyrophaena nana (Paykull)* - In fleshy fungus on stump. Britain & Ireland: Co. Meath.
Gyrophaena poweri Crotch* - RDBK. In fruiting bodies of wood-rotting fungi, such as
Hypholoma fasciculare and Pleurotus. Rare, south-east England; Killarney.
Gyrophaena pseudonana Strand – RDBI. Only known from 2 taken in 1967 from
Hypholoma fasciculare at Chippenham Fen.
Gyrophaena pulchella Heer* - RDBK. Has been recorded from the fungus Hypholoma
fasciculare. Rare in Britain; possibly less so in Ireland.
Gyrophaena rousi Dvořák – RDBI. Discovered on bracket of Polyporus squamosus at
Chippenham Fen in 1999.
Gyrophaena strictula Erichson* - Nationally Scarce. Characteristically associated with the
bracket fungus Daedalea quercina but occasionally reported with other fungi; Britain
& Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow. Widely distributed and not uncommon in N Europe.
Placusa complanata Erichson – Status unclear. Recently taken in frass under bark of burnt
dead Scots pine Pinus sylvestris in Surrey.
Placusa depressa Maeklin - Nationally Scarce. Lives in burrows of bark beetle Tomicus
piniperda under pine Pinus bark; predominantly northern Britain.
Placusa pumilio (Gravenhorst) - Under bark of oak Quercus, etc.
Placusa tachyporoides (Waltl) - Nationally Scarce. Associated with freshly exposed sap of
oak Quercus and sweet chestnut Castanea.
Homalota plana (Gyllenhal)* - Under bark on dead beech Fagus; adult feeds on detritus and
fungi. Local in southern Britain; Ireland: Cos. Kerry, Antrim & Down.
Anomognathus cuspidatus (Erichson)* - Under fungoid bark of dead beech Fagus, oak
Quercus, etc. Widely distributed but local in Britain & Ireland.
Cyphea curtula (Erichson) - ?RDB. Under bark on fallen branchwood of various broadleaved
trees; usually in early stages of decay, with bark still attached. Discovered new
to GB in Gamlingay Wood, Cambs, in 1996.
Silusa rubiginosa Erichson - Nationally Scarce. At sap and under bark, especially goat moth
Cossus trees.
Thecturota marchii (Dodero) - Found in sawdust from broad-leaved trees.
Leptusa fumida Kraatz* - Under bark on dead wood of various trees, also in rot holes; feed
mostly on detritus and fungi, but will eat insect larvae and eggs. Widespread and
frequent in Britain; common around Belfast.
Leptusa norvegica Strand - Nationally Scarce. Under bark of dead pine Pinus and birch
Betula; widespread in Highlands, but also scattered records southwards as far as
southern England.
Leptusa pulchella (Mannerheim)* - Under dead bark on a wide variety of tree species.
Mainly in ancient woodlands, especially where wet. Widespread but local in southern
Britain & Co. Antrim.
Euryusa optabilis Erichson – RDBI. In decaying wood of old trees, especially oak Quercus
and beech Fagus, also elm Ulmus; often with Lasius ants; also litter at base of goat
moth Cossus trees.
Euryusa sinuata Erichson – RDBI. In decaying wood of old trees, especially oak Quercus
and beech Fagus, often with Lasius brunneus ants, but not dependant on them.
Tachyusida gracilis (Erichson) - RDB1. In wood mould of old trees, especially oak Quercus,
usually with Lasius brunneus; Windsor Great Park & Forest.
Bolitochara bella Maerkel - Associated with fleshy fungi on dead broad-leaved trees.
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