Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Dufouriellus ater (Dufour)* - Under sappy bark of recently dead wood of both conifers and
broadleaves; also in beehives, where it apparently preys on psocids. Widespread, but
uncommon, across southern England; a single Irish locality is known.
Microphysidae - Minute Bugs. These are perhaps more associated with epiphytes but are
also found with wood-decay fungi.
Loricula pselaphiformis Curtis* - Found on decaying branchwood and amongst epiphytic
lichen cover; probably predatory. Widespread in GB, but rare in Ireland.
Loricula elegantula (Baerensprung)* - Widespread in Britain on the bark of trees and on
rocks, associated with lichens and wood-decay fungi; feed on mites, springtails, fly
larvae and bark flies (Psocoptera).
Myrmedobia coleoptrata (Fallen) - Nationally Scarce. Under bark of various dead trees,
including spruce, and in tufts of moss around trunk bases; also in other situations, but
usually in well-wooded sites; feeds on small aphids & other insects. Females are
flightless. Widespread in England, but largely southern.
Thysanoptera - Thrips
These insects have piercing mouthparts and feed by penetrating the living tissues of plants
and sucking up the sap. Some suck the body fluids of small insects. More than 100 species
occur in Britain; a few have specialised feeding habits on wood-decay fungi. Information on
the Irish fauna has not been incorporated into the following list.
Phlaeothripidae - Most members of this family are associated with the early stages of
fungal decay on dead wood or in leaf litter. They apparently feed on fungal hyphae or
their breakdown products, although all species in the subfamily Idolothripinae feed on
fungal spores.
Idolothripinae
Cryptothrips nigripes (Reuter) - Feeds on spores on dead branches; infrequent.
Megalothrips bonannii Uzel - Feeds on fungal spores beneath bark on deadwood;
Woodwalton Fen.
Megathrips nobilis Bagnall - Feeds on fungal spores on dead Salix branches; Wicken Fen and
Ross-shire.
Phlaeothripinae
Abiastothrips schaubergeri (Priesner) - Probably in dead branches; one record from Box Hill,
Surrey.
Acanthothrips nodicornis (Reuter) - Larvae feed on fungi in cracks in tree bark; not very
common.
Haplothrips flavitibia Williams - Probably on dead twigs; rare.
Haplothrips fuliginosus Schille - On dead twigs or under bark of various trees and shrubs;
widespread but not common.
Haplothrips minutus Uzel - Probably on dead twigs; Westmorland.
Haplothrips subtilissimus (Haliday) - On oak branches, probably feeding on small
arthropods; locally common.
Hoplandrothrips bidens (Bagnall) - On dead branches; not common.
Hoplothrips corticis (De Geer) - On dead wood of broadleaves, feeding on fungi; very local.
Hoplothrips fungi (Zetterstedt) - Lives beneath encrustations of Peniophora fungus on dead
oak branches; widespread and common.
Hoplothrips longisetis (Bagnall) - On dead branches, probably carnivorous; very local.
Hoplothrips pedicularius (Haliday) - Fairly common on deadwood of broadleaves, feeding on
Stereum fungus.
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