Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Synanthedon scoliaeformis (Borkhausen) - Welsh Clearwing. RDB3. Eggs are laid in old
emergence holes or in bark crevices in the lower part of old birch trunks; larvae tunnel
below bark; a northern and western species.
Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen) - Red-belted Clearwing. Nationally Scarce A.
Eggs laid in bark crevices of various Prunaceae;larvae bore in timber; southern and
eastern Britain.
Synanthedon culiciformis (Linnaeus) - Large Red-belted Clearwing. Nationally Scarce A.
Eggs laid within crevices of birch stumps of 1-3 years and living stems, also on alder;
larvae bore under bark; heaths and open woods, widely across lowland Britain; also in
N. Scotland.
Oecophoridae
Schiffermuelleria grandis (Desvignes) - pRDB1. Larva feeds in soft decaying wood beneath
bark on oak, beech, elm and even gorse and ivy; pupates under bark. Local in New
Forest, N. Wales & West Midlands.
Schiffermuelleria similella (Hubner) - Larva on fungus under dead bark of pine or sycamore;
also reared from Fomes fomentarius and Daldinia concentrica; pupates in feeding
place. Local from Staffordshire northwards; a hill country species.
Schiffermuelleria tinctella (Hubner) - Larva in dead wood and under decaying bark of trees,
where pupates; woodland species, widespread in southern England.
Denisia albimaculea (Haworth) - Larvae feed in galleries in dead outer bark of a wide variety
of trees, including elm, Malus, lime, sycamore and larch. Local in England.
Batia lunaris (Haworth) - Larva under dead bark of various trees and shrubs; in dead wood
on fencing, etc; in mite galls on Salix. Locally common in southern England.
Batia unitella (Hubner) - Larva on dead wood and fungus under bark of various trees; dull
pinkish brown with yellowish lines, head chestnut brown. Local in southern England.
Dafa formosella (D. & S.) - pRDB1. Larva feeds under dead bark, chiefly of Malus; larva
light grey, head and plate light chestnut; only known from Wanstead and possibly
Epping Forest areas, probably extinct in GB.
Telechrysis tripuncta (Haworth) - Larva unknown, but probably in rotten wood in hedges and
thickets; local in England.
Esperia sulphurella (Fabricius)* - Eggs laid in crevices in dead and decaying wood; larva on
dead wood and under bark of various trees, and on fungus therein, exuding much
frass, including Daldinia concentrica. Larva greyish white, pinacula dark grey, head
and plates chestnut brown; pupates in cocoon of silk and frass. Widespread in Britain
and Ireland, north to Clyde.
Esperia oliviella (Fabricius) - Nationally Scarce B. Eggs laid in crevices in dead and
decaying wood; larva on decayed wood of oak, blackthorn, hazel, Robinia, etc; also in
rotten cut wood; larva pale yellowish grey with black dots, head and plate brown.
Local across southern England.
Oecophora bractella Linnaeus - pRDB3. Larva develops under dead bark of oak, ash, larch,
pine, etc, especially when tree has been colonised by honey fungus Armillaria mellea
agg. In gallery of loosely woven silk and frass between bark and tree; larva olivegrey-brown,
pinacula darker, head pale brown, plates darker. Northern and western
England.
Alabonia geoffrella (Linnaeus)* - Larva on decayed wood; whitish with darker spots, head
and prothoracic plate yellow-brown; hedges; common in England and southern
Ireland.
Cosmopterigidae
Euclemensia woodiella (Curtis) – Extinct. Larva in dead wood; adult taken in 1829 at Kersall
Moor, Manchester.
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