Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Xylita laevigata (Hellenius) - Nationally Scarce A. Within decaying wood; Scottish
Highlands.
Hypulus quercinus (Quensel) - RDB2. In decaying heartwood of oak Quercus, hazel Corylus
and birch Betula. Relict old forest species; mostly eastern and southeastern England,
as far north as Yorkshire; also Avon Gorge, S. Devon & S. Wales.
Zilora ferruginea (Paykull) - Nationally Scarce B. In Hirschioporus abietinus on dead pine
Pinus; pupae under bark on deadwood; Highlands.
Melandrya barbata (Fabricius) - RDB1. In decaying wood of oak Quercus and beech Fagus.
Only known in Britain from a very few ancient wood pasture areas of south-east
England.
Melandrya caraboides (Linnaeus)* - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in relatively soft moist
white-rotted heartwood of boughs, trunks and stumps; various broad-leaved trees,
especially ash Fraxinus and beech Fagus. Widespread in England and Wales, but
rare in Scotland and Ireland; mostly associated with ancient woodlands and wood
pastures, including linear sites such as riverside trees.
Conopalpus testaceus (Olivier)* - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in decaying boughs and
branches, especially of oak Quercus, also hazel Corylus; adults may visit flowers,
especially umbellifers. Associated with ancient wood pastures; widespread in central
and southeastern England, rare in west; Dyfed.
Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius) - RDB3. Adults attracted to hawthorn Crataegus blossom,
also wayfaring and guelder rose Viburnum, and field maple Acer campestre; larval
habitat not known. Concentrated on Huntingdonshire, and extending sparingly in
broad spread southwards as far as N. Somerset and E. Suffolk.
Mordellidae - Tumbling Flower Beetles. The larvae of most genera in this family develop
in galls or the stems of herbaceous plants, but a few specialise in decaying wood.
Variimorda villosa (Shrank) is probably a stem species although has often been
assumed to be a wood-decay species.
Tomoxia bucephala (Gyllenhal) - Nationally Scarce A. Adults lay eggs in vacated anobiid
borings in exposed heartwood on standing trunks; larvae develop in decayed timber;
beech Fagus, horse chestnut Aesculus & other broad-leaved trees; adults visit umbel
flowers. Confined to relict old forest areas of the southern- and eastern-most counties
of England.
Mordellochroa abdominalis (Fabricius) - Develops in dry sapwood of dead broad-leaved
trees, including ash Fraxinus. Adults locally frequent at flowers of hawthorn
Crataegus, hogweed Heracleum, etc.
Mordellistena humeralis (Linnaeus) – RDBK. Adults have been found at blossom of umbels
and meadowsweet Filipendula. A few confirmed records only, from the southeast and
East Anglia.
Mordellistena neuwaldeggiana (Panzer)* - RDBK. Has been reared from hornbeam
Carpinus and field maple Acer campestre branch wood in early stages of decay;
adults attracted to blossom. Restricted range in south and east of England, with most
records from relict old forest or wood pasture.
Rhipiphoridae
Metoecus paradoxus (Linnaeus)* - Eggs deposited on wood, and larvae transported by wasps
collecting wood pulp for nest materials into nests as triungulin larvae; larvae feed on
wasp larvae, initially endoparasites, later ectoparasites; very quick growing, possibly
a few days only; wasp nests in ground most usually, seldom in elevated situations
such as buildings; host always the wasp V. vulgaris.
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