Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Platycis cosnardi (Chevrolat) – RDBI. Larvae develop in decaying heartwood of old beech
Fagus hulks; Wye Gorge and West Sussex Downs.
Platycis minutus (F.) - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae develop in large relatively soft moist
decaying heartwood, especially beech Fagus and probably ash Fraxinus; mostly in
closed-canopy areas of ancient woodland; southern and eastern England.
Cantharidae - Soldier Beetles. Larvae of Malthininae probably all develop in decaying
branchwood or heartwood.
Malthinus balteatus Suffrian* - Nationally Scarce B. Associated with poorly-drained broadleaved
woodland across southern Britain, particularly wooded streamsides, but also
along base of wooded limestone escarpments. Small relict population in woods of
Morecambe Bay limestone.
Malthinus punctatus (Geoffroy)* =flaveolus (Herbst) - Widespread in broad-leaved woodland
and hedgerows.
Malthinus frontalis (Marsham) - Nationally Scarce B. Associated particularly with large old
and open-grown trees in parkland or other situations. Formerly widespread but has
become increasingly scarce.
Malthinus seriepunctatus Kiesenwetter* - Widespread in southern woodlands, and extending
furthest north along the western coastal districts well into Scotland.
Malthodes crassicornis (Maklin) - RDB3. Larvae develop in moist crumbly red heart-rot of
large old oaks Quercus. A speciality of relict old forest with open-grown ancient
trees.
Malthodes dispar (Germar)* - A species of wet woodlands and shaded riverbanks.
Malthodes fibulatus Kiesenwetter - Nationally Scarce B. A species of calcareous woodlands.
Malthodes flavoguttatus Kiesenwetter* - Most frequent in acidic oak Quercus and birch
Betula woods of north and west, and absent from south and east.
Malthodes fuscus (Waltl)* - Most frequent in acidic oak Quercus and birch Betula woods of
north and west; also widely in south.
Malthodes guttifer Kiesenwetter* - Nationally Scarce B. Very thinly scattered throughout
the broad-leaved woodlands of the British Isles, but most frequent in certain areas of
the north and west.
Malthodes marginatus (Latreille)* - Larvae develop in decaying wood or beneath bark on
dead timber; mainly predatory on insect larvae including dead ones, but will also feed
on decaying timber to some extent. Widespread.
Malthodes maurus (Laporte) - Nationally Scarce B. A little known species.
Malthodes minimus (L.)* - Common and widespread in the south and east, scarcer elsewhere.
Malthodes mysticus Kiesenwetter - A widespread species of the hill country woodlands of the
north and west, and present in the Weald.
Malthodes pumilus (Brebisson)* - Possibly associated particularly with large and old opengrown
trees, especially oak Quercus and willow Salix. Also with old scrub such as
broom Cytisus. But also widely found on chalk and limestone pastures.
Dermestidae - Hide Beetles. Four species specifically attached to trees; all have larvae
which live in the crevices beneath dead bark on the trunks of large old living oak
Quercus trees, or under the dry loose bark of dead standing oaks, where they are
associated with the webs of the larger bark-frequenting spiders. They feed on the
remains of insects eaten and left over by the spiders; and pupate within the larval skin,
which splits along the back, and affords some protection.
Globicornis rufitarsis (Panzer) = nigripes (F.) - RDB1. Larvae develop under loose bark and
in old decayed wood where feed on dry larval & pupal skins of other insects,
generally in tree hollows beneath bird nests; adults occasionally found at blossom -
especially umbellifers. Two centres known in Britain: i) Windsor Forest, and ii) S.
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