Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Malachius bipustulatus (L.)* - Larvae partly predatory in holes of wood-borers, partly
feeding on their excreta and larval skins; adults sun-loving and feed on pollen, also
seen to attack and eat the beetle Dasytes aerosus.
Anthocomus fasciatus (L.)* - Larvae probably predatory in borings of anobiid beetles; adults
usually found by sweeping beneath trees or at umbel flowers.
Sphindidae - All the known Sphindidae breed exclusively in slime fungus spore bodies.
Sphindus dubius (Gyllenhal) - Nationally Scarce B.
Aspidiphorus orbiculatus (Gyllenhal)*
Nitidulidae - Sap or Blossom Beetles. A number of species are attracted to sap flows,
especially during fermentation; at freshly cut stumps, sickly trees attacked by bark
beetles and Hylecoetus, as well as exudations caused by the wood-boring larva of the
goat moth Cossus.
Soronia grisea (Linnaeus)* - Under bark on dead ash Fraxinus; associated solely with ash in
Ireland.
Soronia punctatissima (Illiger)* - Associated with oak Quercus and alder Alnus; attracted to
sappy stumps, as well as trees attacked by goat moth Cossus and clearwing moths
(Sesiidae); associated with ash Fraxinus in Ireland.
Amphotis marginata (F.) – RDBK. In nests and runs of jet ant Lasius fuliginosus in
woodland.
Cryptarcha strigata (F.) - Nationally Scarce B. Associated with freshly exposed and
fermenting sap; oak Quercus and ash Fraxinus reported.
Cryptarcha undata (Olivier) - Nationally Scarce B. Associated with freshly exposed and
fermenting sap; oak Quercus.
Glischrochilus hortensis (Fourcroy)* - Usually at sappy stumps, in fungi, or amongst
chippings from broad-leaved trees or conifers.
Glischrochilus quadriguttatus (Fabricius)* - As above; feeds on fermenting sap; associated
with ash Fraxinus in Ireland.
Glischrochilus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus)* - On conifers.
Pityophagus ferrugineus (L.)* - Under bark on dead pine Pinus. Also reported from plant
roots in arable land.
Carpophilus sexpustulatus (F.) - Under bark on sappy recently dead timber, especially sweet
chestnut Castanea, but has also been reported from under bark with the fruiting
bodies of the fungus Bulgaria inquinans; may be predator of bark beetles. Peculiar
history in Britain, with earlier records all from stored products, but has increasingly
been found in old wood pastures. Largely eastern distribution in Britain, and
especially in south-east and east side of Pennines, but also known from
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Lancashire.
Epuraea aestiva (L.)* - Adults at flowers of trees and shrubs, e.g. rowan Sorbus, gorse Ulex.
Common.
Epuraea angustula Sturm* - Nationally Scarce B. Associated with the borings of Xyloterus
bark beetles in sickly or freshly dead trunks and boughs, especially of birch Betula,
oak Quercus and beech Fagus; lowland England, except south-west; pine Pinus in
Highlands; also in Co Donegal. Associated with ancient wood pastures.
Epuraea biguttata (Thunberg) - Under sappy bark on dead timber and in bracket fungi; feed
largely on sap and other vegetable matter, but will also eat insect eggs; larvae below
loose bark and on the bark surface, feed readily on scolytid eggs and small larvae,
also dead or dying larger larvae; not uncommon in Scotland.
Epuraea binotata Reitter – Extinct. Single British specimen swept in N.Essex in 1895.
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