Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

eticulatus, which may be necessary to break up this very hard fungus for the moth
larvae. Known from a few Highland areas of Scotland.
Nemaxera betulinella (Fabricius)* - The larvae develop in wood-rotting fungi on broadleaved
timber. Very local, but scattered throughout England, with the exception of
the south-west. There are old reports from Co. Dublin.
Triaxomera parasitella (Hubner) - Develops in a variety of wood-rotting fungi. Widespread
and common over much of lowland southern England; scarcer in the north, with
isolated records from Northumberland and Stirlingshire. Not known from Wales or
Ireland.
Triaxomera fulvimitrella (Sodovsky) - Larvae develop in various wood-rotting fungi;
occasionally on callus-tissue around tree wounds. Southern records mostly from oak
and beech, while northern ones are mainly from birch polypore. Locally throughout
Britain, and most common in central Highlands of Scotland.
Triaxomasia caprimulgella (Stainton) - Nationally Scarce B. Larvae in dead wood of beech,
oak or elm. Ecology unclear; possibly associated with tree cavities, perhaps feeding
on dead insects in spider webs; but also believed to feed on wood, perhaps on scar
tissue. Only reported from SE England, from Kent to Berkshire and Suffolk.
Monopis fenestratella (Heyden) – pRDB. A rare species in Britain and Europe, reported
from: Chatteris, Cambs in 1877, where thought to have bred in rotten elm stumps in a
garden; Loxley, Warks in 1980, reared from kestrel nest in a hedgerow oak; and
Richmond Park, Surrey in 1995, at light trap close to old hollow oaks. Elsewhere in
Europe has been reared from nests of kestrel, owls, and hornet, as well as associated
with fungi, dead wood and dry plant material.
Niditinea piercella (Bentinck) - Develops in bird nests inside hollow trees and in nest boxes;
larvae feed on feathers and other animal fibres; lowland southern and eastern Britain;
local.
Sesiidae
Sesia apiformis (Clerck)* - Hornet Moth. Nationally Scarce A. The eggs are laid low down
in bark crevices or in old emergence holes on living poplars; larva tunnels between
bark and wood in lower trunk and roots. Occurs over much of lowland England,
absent only from south-west and much of north; extends into southern and northern
coastal districts of Wales; present in Ireland.
Sesia bembeciformis (Hubner) - Lunar Hornet Clearwing. Nationally Scarce A. The eggs are
laid low down on the trunks of various living Salix spp.; larva initially tunnels
haphazardly below the bark at and below ground level, boring deeper into wood in
second year, when excavate vertical tunnels. Pupates at upper end of larval borings.
Occurs widely throughout Britain.
Paranthrene tabaniformis (Rottemburg) - Dusky Clearwing. Either associated with the galls
of the longhorn beetle Saperda populnea on aspen, or boring in roots or bark; few GB
records, all SE.
Synanthedon vespiformis (Linnaeus) - Yellow-legged Clearwing. Nationally Scarce B. The
eggs are laid along edges or within bark crevices of oak stumps of up to 3 years age,
and in crevices of sap-runs on living trunks; larvae develop under sappy bark, where
also pupate; occasionally other broad-leaves. Widespread in southern Britain, but
absent from the far west.
Synanthedon spheciformis (Denis & Schiffer) - White-barred Clearwing. Nationally Scarce
A. Eggs laid in ground near bark crevices of alder and birch; larvae tunnelling in
trunks; local but widespread over central and southern England and Wales.
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