Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Megachilidae
Stelis breviuscula – RDBK. Brood parasite of the bee Heriades truncorum; only discovered
in West Sussex in 1984 and now found almost wherever Heriades is present.
Heriades truncorum (Linnaeus) – RDBK. Nest in burrows in dead wood and pithy stems,
also occasionally crumbling masonry; pollen sources restricted to composites. Southeast
England, on Bagshot Sand and Chalk; rare and very restricted within its range.
Chelostoma campanularum (Kirby) - Nest in wood; visits Campanula.
Chelostoma florisomne (Linnaeus) - Nest in wood.
Osmia pilicornis Smith, F. - Nationally Scarce A. Nest in rotten wood, including old coppice
stools; visits bugle Ajuga. A woodland species found across southern England; very
local and has clearly declined.
Osmia uncinata Gerstaecher - RDB2. Boreo-alpine old pine Pinus forest species; nest in
borings in trunk and stumps of pine, especially those of the longhorn beetle Rhagium
inquisitor; provisions cells with pollen from birds-foot trefoil Lotus, broom Cytisus
and bilberry Vaccinium. A speciality of western and central Europe.
Megachile ligniseca (Kirby) - Nest in decaying wood; visits thistle and Rubus flowers.
Megachile versicolor Smith, F. - Nest in dead wood; visits flowers of Lotus corniculatus and
thistles.
Anthophoridae
Anthophora furcata (Panzer) - Nest in wood, e.g.rotten gate posts.
Apidae
Apis mellifera mellifera L. - Native Honey Bee. The main natural nest site for this species in
Britain is standing hollow trees, although the bees forage widely in the surrounding
countryside.
Diptera – Flies. Over 400 species develop in dead wood situations. Many are
polyphagous on fungi.
Craneflies
Tipulidae
Ctenophora (Cnemoncosis) ornata Meigen - RDB1. Larvae reared from porridge-like wet
wood mould in standing or fallen beech trees. Adults come to m.v. light after dark.
Mainly known from the New Forest, but also from Windsor Forest, Ashridge,
Ashtead Common, and Portmadoc, N. Wales.
Ctenophora (Ctenophora) flaveolata (Fabricius) - RDB2. Probably associated with large
overmature trees, especially beech in the south-east, about which a female has been
seen flying, although also occurs in sites lacking beech; larvae in decaying wood,
probably one year cycle. Adults visit blossom such as hawthorn. Associated with
ancient broadleaved woodland and wood pasture, widely across southern Britain –
does not warrant RDB status.
Ctenophora (Ctenophora) pectinicornis (Linnaeus)* - Nationally Scarce. Associated with
rot-holes in large broadleaved trees, especially beech; larvae often occur in the rotten
shattered ends of trunks and have been found in rotten boughs which have freshly
fallen from at least 10m up. Widespread in southern Britain, scarcer in west and
north.
Dictenidia bimaculata (Linnaeus)* - In fens and ancient woodland, developing in welldecayed
timber of a variety of broad-leaved trees.
Tanyptera atrata (Linnaeus)* - Nationally Scarce. Larvae develop in decaying logs and
fallen trunks of birch and alder, and to a lesser extent in other broadleaves; apparently
favours harder deadwood for larval development than others of genus. Usually
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