Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

associated with old forest areas and heaths, and widespread across GB, but not known
from New Forest. A rather marked decline seems apparent in Britain.
Tanyptera nigricornis (Meigen) - RDB3. Develops in dead wood of a range of broadleaves;
recently a female found in open woodland at a live ash tree with one side of the trunk
rotted away. Associated with ancient woodland and wood pasture; frequent in New
Forest, and widespread though rare across the north Midlands/Lancs/Yorks district;
also Scotland.
Tipula (Dendrotipula) flavolineata Meigen* - Develops in soft rotting and also in quite hard
white-rotted wood of various broadleaves, especially beech and large birches.
Tipula (Lunatipula) cava Riedel* - Recorded from dead wood but probably not specific to it.
Tipula (Lunatipula) peliostigma Schummel* - Nationally Scarce. Occasionally develops
under bark on decaying wood; more usually in bird nests.
Tipula (Lunatipula) selene Meigen - RDB3. Larvae in dead wood, even in small branches,
lying on wet soil; has been reared from a small ash branch on fen peat & from a bird’s
nest. A species of southern woodlands, best represented in south-west.
Tipula (Mediotipula) sarajevensis Strobl – RDB1. Only a single British record, a female take
in the New Forest in 1901. The larval ecology is unknown but related species breed in
dead wood.
Tipula (Mediotipula) siebkei Zetterstedt - RDB1. The larvae on the Continent have been
reported from rotting wood of aspen. A male was taken in Mark Ash in New Forest
in 1953.
Tipula (Pterelachisus) irrorata Macquart* - Grey leatherjacket larvae often frequent under
bark of hardwood logs; also in decaying heartwood and rot-hole material. A local but
widespread woodland species.
Tipula (Savtshenkia) confusa van der Wulp* - Develops under bark on dead wood.
Tipula (Vestiplex) hortorum Linnaeus* - RDB3. May develop in deadwood.
Tipula (Vestiplex) scripta Meigen* - Has been reared from under bark of rotten wood, but
may not be confined to this situation.
Pediciidae
Ula mollissima Haliday* - Larvae mostly develop in fungi growing in and on dead wood in
woodlands.
Ula sylvatica (Meigen)* - Polyphagous in fungi; terrestrial species predominate more so than
Ula mollissima.
Limoniidae - Some species which develop in wet soil, e.g., Symplecta stictica (Meigen), or
leaf litter, e.g. Limonia nubeculosa Meigen, have been reared from rot-hole material
but these cannot be regarded as true wood-decay species and are not included.
Gnophomyia elsneri Starý - RDB1. Develops in porridge-like wet wood mould in hollow
beech or beech stumps; Windsor Forest.
Gnophomyia viridipennis (Gimmerthal) - Nationally Scarce. Yellowish larvae develop in the
fibrous cambial layer beneath bark of recently felled trees, usually Populus (including
aspen) or beech, possibly also willows; larvae gregarious; mainly fen and carr.
Southern species, but with a few sites in northern Britain.
Scleroprocta pentagonalis (Loew) - RDB3. Wet woodland, where case-bearing larvae have
been found in rotting birch polypore fungus Piptoporus betulinus when it has fallen
from the tree in the spring.
Scleroprocta sororcula (Zetterstedt) - Nationally Scarce. Has been reared from larvae in
galleries in birch polypore Piptoporus betulinus.
Tasiocera collini Freeman* - RDB1. Only known in Britain from Chippenham Fen; also in
Ireland. Larvae may develop in dead wood of poplar.
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