Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus* - Mealworm Beetle. Stored-products and domestic pest; also
develops in bird nests and in bat roosts where larvae scavengers; occasionally found
in decaying timber.
Helops caeruleus (Linnaeus) - Nationally Scarce B. In decaying trees, principally oak
Quercus, but also in a wide variety of other species including pine Pinus; also in
prepared timber; larvae in rather hard and dryish decaying wood; adults come to
sugar, nocturnal; probably flightless. Most often found in coastal situations, but also
in ancient wood pastures inland. South and east of England.
Cylindrinotus laevioctostriatus (Goeze)* - Develops in decaying timber in ancient woodlands
and wood pastures; also in peaty soils of heaths. Larvae feed indiscriminately on
organic material. Adults nocturnal; feed on algae encrusting timber or lichens on
heaths. Widespread in southern Britain. Mostly short-winged, but with occasional
reports of flying individuals.
Prionychus ater (Fabricius) - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae most often develop in black wood
mould in hollowing broad-leaved trees, often but not invariably beneath nests of birds
such as jackdaw; also very occasionally found in accumulations of frass beneath loose
bark on trunks and large boughs. Adults nocturnal. Widely in wood pastures across
southern Britain, but absent from far west.
Prionychus melanarius (Germar) - RDB2. Larvae develop in similar situations to P. ater, but
with more emphasis on accumulations of frass and other debris beneath loose bark on
decaying oak Quercus and other broad-leaved trees. Adults nocturnal. Relict old
forest species known from Severn Vale, Sherwood, Arundel Park area of South
Downs, and Staverton Park.
Gonodera luperus (Herbst)* - Adults usually swept in calcareous woodlands; larvae
presumed to be saproxylic.
Pseudocistela ceramboides (Linnaeus) - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae in wood-mould of
hollow decayed oaks Quercus, also beech Fagus, etc; generally beneath bird nests;
adults generally in small numbers, come to blossom of hawthorn Crataegus. Widely
in wood pastures of central southern and eastern England; also in old orchards.
Mycetochara humeralis (Fabricius) - Nationally Scarce A. Larvae develop in old decaying
beech Fagus, oak Quercus and cherry Prunus, generally hollow trees, in wood mould
beneath bird nests; adults generally found sheltering under bark. Mainly known from
the wood pastures of East Midlands, East Anglia and southeast.
Uloma culinaris (L.) - Extinct? or Vagrant? A 1950 specimen from rotten wood is in the
Booth Museum, Brighton.
Oedemeridae - False Blister Beetles. This family includes a mix of stem-borers and wooddecay
species; two species have been assumed to be in the latter category on no firm
evidence: Oedemera virescens and Oncomera femorata.
Nacerdes melanura (Linnaeus)* - Wharf-borer. In decayed timber, especially in coastal and
estuarine areas, but also canal and riversides; also railway sleepers; larvae develop in
flooded timber, mainly softwood but occasionally in oak Quercus which is damp or
wet and in process of fungal decay. Widespread, but commonest in Midlands & S &
SE estuaries.
Chrysanthia nigricornis (Westhoff) - RDB1. Larvae have been found in soft heartwood of an
old pine Pinus branch (5cm thick) lying beneath tufts of moss and heather; Scottish
Highlands.
Ischnomera caerulea (Linnaeus) - RDB3. Larvae develop in relatively soft white-rotting
heartwood of elm Ulmus in Britain, but reported from oak Quercus timber on
Continent; adults attracted to hawthorn Crataegus blossom. Ancient wood pastures.
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