Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

in Spey and Clyde Valleys, where presumably developing in Daldinia vernicosa. In
ancient woods and wood pastures. Palaearctic.
Tropideres sepicola (Fabricius) - RDB2. Larvae develop in decaying branches of oak
Quercus, hornbeam Carpinus, beech Fagus, etc, in old primary woods. Central
southern and south-eastern England.
Tropideres niveirostris (Fabricius) - RDB2. Larvae develop in dead wood of branches of a
variety of trees and shrubs, in woods and old neglected hedges. Central southern and
south-eastern England.
Platystomos albinus (Linnaeus) - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae develop in deadwood on dead
and dying trees, also the fungus Daldinia, usually in woods. Central southern and
eastern England.
Choragus sheppardi Kirby, W.* - Nationally Scarce A. Larvae develop in rotten, fungusinfested
wood of old ivy Hedera, in hedges and woods.
Rhynchophoridae Weevils
Dryophthorus corticalis (Paykull) - RDB1 & BAP Grouped Species Statement. At
interface of hard oak Quercus timber with red-rot, also in beech Fagus, and often
associated with the ant Lasius brunneus; larvae wood-feeders; old relict forest species
presently confined to Windsor, but known from Somerset Levels and Thorne Moors
in Neolithic.
Curculionidae – Weevils
Hylobius abietis (Linnaeus)* - Associated with Scots pine Pinus sylvestris.
Pissodes - The larvae are cambium feeders of various conifers, usually only superficially
grooving the sapwood.
Pissodes castaneus (Degeer)
Pissodes pini (Linnaeus)
Pissodes validirostris (Sahlberg,C.R.) - RDB3.
Magdalis - The larvae are cambium feeders, usually only superficially grooving the sapwood.
Magdalis armigera (Fourcroy)* - Wood-boring species; female drills hole in dead elm branch
and deposits egg inside; adults at flowers; hedgerows & scrubby places. Local in
Britain & rare in Ireland.
Magdalis barbicornis (Latreille) - Nationally Scarce A. Associated with dead Rosaceous
trees and shrubs.
Magdalis carbonaria (Linnaeus)* - Nationally Scarce B. Associated with dead birch Betula.
Magdalis cerasi (Linnaeus) - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in dead boughs and branches,
especially of Rosaceae, although has also been found on oak Quercus.
Magdalis duplicata Germar - Nationally Scarce A. Larvae develop in dead twigs and
branches of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris; Scotland and Cumbria.
Magdalis memnonia (Gyllenhal) – Naturalised. Associated with sickly pines Pinus; Sussex
& Surrey. Recent establishment.
Magdalis phlegmatica (Herbst) - Nationally Scarce A. Associated with dead Scots pine
Pinus sylvestris; Scotland, Cumbria, Yorkshire.
Magdalis ruficornis (Linnaeus)
Euophryum confine (Broun)* - Naturalised. Immigrant New Zealand species, first reported
in 1937, now widespread throughout Britain; always found associated with timber
where damp and decay evident; appear to have two overlapping life cycles per year,
and adults long-lived; flight holes c.1.1mm and ragged outline, and dense channelled
galleries in heartwood. Regularly found in cuboidal red rot of fungus Laetiporus
sulphureus outdoors, but also in wet rot on timbers in buildings.
Euophryum rufum (Broun)* - Naturalised. Possibly not a distinct species; first recorded in
GB in 1934. A secondary pest of timber in buildings.
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