Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Hadrobregmus denticollis (Creutzer) - Nationally Scarce B. Develop in dead heartwood of
various broad-leaved trees, e.g. red-rot of Salix fragilis, old oak Quercus, pear Pyrus
and hawthorn Crataegus. Southern England as far north as Worcester.
Priobium carpini (Herbst) – Naturalised. Known from South Kensington area of London
since 1980s; in dry timber of conifers and broad-leaved trees. An uncommon species
of central and northern Europe.
Ptilinus pectinicornis (L.)* - Bores in exposed dry heartwood of old broad-leaved trees,
making small pinholes; especially in beech Fagus, but also in most other species;
female attracts males by release of pheromone, effective over a few metres; females
bore breeding passages into timber to lay eggs, vertical surfaces preferred; may also
use existing flight hole to gain entry; only a few females actually leave the old
breeding site to initiate new infestation. Widespread.
Xyletinus longitarsus Jansson - RDB2. In very brittle & powdery dead wood of broom
Cytisus and in decaying timber; scattered distribution, clumped in N. Midlands,
Herefordshire/Forest of Dean, and southern counties.
Dorcatoma ambjoerni Baranowski – RDBK. Reared from fruiting bodies of the bracket
fungus Inonotus cuticularis on old beeches Fagus; and from red-rotten heartwood;
probably hibernates in larval stage, like others of genus; active later in summer than
others of genus; discovered in Windsor Forest in 1990 and now known from three
localities.
Dorcatoma chrysomelina Sturm - Develops in the interior of boughs and trunks of oak
Quercus which are red-rotten, due to activity of the fungus Laetiporus sulphureus; has
also been found in a red-rotted ash Fraxinus stump. Ancient wood pastures. Dyfed to
East Anglia, north to Lancs. and Yorks., but apparently absent from SW England.
Dorcatoma dresdensis Herbst - Nationally Scarce A. Develops in hard perennial bracket
fungi on broad-leaved trees, incl. Ganoderma on old beech Fagus and Phellinus spp.
Ancient wood pastures of south-east England, west to Severn Vale.
Dorcatoma flavicornis (F.) - Nationally Scarce B. Similar habits to D. chrysomelina;
widespread across southern Britain, but rare in south-west.
Dorcatoma serra Panzer - Nationally Scarce A. Develops in hard bracket fungi on
broadleaved trees, especially Inonotus dryadeus; ancient wood pastures of central and
south-eastern England, reaching into the Welsh Marches.
Anitys rubens (Hoffmann, J.J.) - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in red-rotted heartwood of
old oaks Quercus in ancient wood pastures; southern England to Yorkshire, and
Ceredigion.
Anobiidae: Ptininae - Spider Beetles
Ptinus fur (Linnaeus) - Larvae develop in a wide range of dry organic matter, including
fungoid heartwood and old bracket fungi. They are a regular feature of ancient trees.
Ptinus lichenum Marsham - RDB3. Larvae bore in dry wood and bark, in old palings, etc.
Also a scavenger in bird nests.
Ptinus palliatus Perris - Nationally Scarce A. Associated with dry but rotten dead timber, of
oak Quercus, especially in old posts.
Ptinus pilosus Müller, PWJ - Vagrant? In old wood, very rare.
Ptinus subpilosus Sturm* - Nationally Scarce B. In old hollow trees and under bark, mainly
of oak Quercus, and old pines Pinus in Highlands; also scavenger in bird nests. Relict
old forest species.
Lymexylidae - Larvae develop in dying or dead timber, and cultivate microscopic fungi
(ambrosia) in their galleries.
Hylecoetus dermestoides (L.)* - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in dead timber and root
stumps of hardwoods and softwoods; bores vertically into the heartwood; adult stage
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