Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

sheets of Armillaria sp; adults reported widely, feeding at wide variety of wood-decay
fungi. Very thinly scattered across Britain.
Cis festivus (Panzer)* - Nationally Scarce B. In fungal brackets on decaying timber; Salix,
birch Betula, and aspen Populus tremula.
Cis hispidus (Paykull)* - Develop in the brackets of the fungi Trametes hirsutus and T.
versicolor; possibly favours open wood pasture situations.
Cis jacquemarti Mellié - Nationally Scarce B. In bracket fungi; Scotland.
Cis lineatocribratus Mellié - Nationally Scarce B. In hard bracket fungi; Scotland and
northern England.
Cis micans (Fabricius) - Most often found in association with oak Quercus.
Cis nitidus (Fabricius)* - Develops in the brackets of Ganoderma spp in particular; the larvae
have particularly heavily developed mandibles for chewing this exceptionally woody
fungus; can also develop in Piptoporus betulinus. Most often found in old parklands
or wood pastures.
Cis punctulatus Gyllenhal - In Hirschioporus abietinus, on larch Larix and pine Pinus;
Scotland, but recently established in S and E England.
Cis pygmaeus (Marsham) - Larval ecology not known; adults are reported to be attracted to
the ascomycete fungus Ascodichaena rugosa on moribund peripheral twigs of oak
Quercus; southern Britain.
Cis setiger Mellié* - Larvae develop under fungoid bark colonised by Trametes versicolor.
Adults feed on hyphae of a wider variety of wood-decay fungi.
Cis vestitus Mellié* - Mainly on dead oak Quercus branches, especially on old trees; also
polypore fungi on elm Ulmus and beech Fagus. Apparently more frequent now than
in the recorded past.
Ennearthron cornutum (Gyllenhal)* - Larvae develop in the fruiting bodies of various
bracket fungi.
Tetratomidae - Associated with bracket fungi.
Tetratoma ancora Fabricius* - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae under encrusting fruit-bodies of
Phlebia merismoides and perhaps other fungi on dead branches of oak Quercus and
other broadleaved trees. Ancient woodlands and wood pastures. Notably thin scatter
of records throughout Britain, although none from East Anglia and adjacent Midlands;
has declined throughout England.
Tetratoma desmaresti Latreille - Nationally Scarce A. Most often associated with dead,
shaded out, lower boughs of mature and overmature oaks Quercus, possibly
developing in Stereum; adult has once been found at the fruiting body of Laetiporus
sulphureus on old oak; probably pupates at ground level as larva and pupae have been
recorded under moss below oak. Thinly scattered over much of lowland Britain.
Tetratoma fungorum Fabricius* - Develop successfully, and most commonly, in fruiting
bodies of Piptoporus betulinus on birch Betula; and has been found developing in
Pleurotus cornucopiae, P. ostreatus, Flammulina velutipes, Fistulina hepatica and
Paxillus panuoides; has also been taken on Inonotus cuticularis, Bjerkandera adusta
and Polyporus squamosus. Adults nocturnal. Widespread throughout much of
Britain, but scarcer in west, and only a single record from Ireland.
Melandryidae - False Darkling Beetles
Hallomenus binotatus (Quensel)* - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in the fruiting bodies of
large polypore fungi in ancient wood pastures, particularly in Laetiporus sulphureus,
but also in pine-associates in the ancient Scottish pine forests. Thinly scattered over
much of Britain and scarcest in the west.
Orchesia micans (Panzer)* - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in a variety of large polypore
fungi: especially Inonotus hispidus on ash Fraxinus, but also I. radiatus on alder
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