Crustacea: Copepoda - Cerambycoidea.com

Atomaria badia Erichson – RDBI. Under bark on deadwood of pine Pinus and in wasp
(Vespidae) nests; boreo-alpine species, restricted to Caledonian pine forest of
Speyside.
Atomaria lohsei Johnson & Strand – Naturalised. Apparently a recent immigrant to Britain.
Known from rotten wood debris abroad; mainly conifer forest.
Atomaria morio Kolenati – RDBK. Primarily associated with bird nests in tree cavities, but
also reported from squirrel dreys, a mole nest and a cut stump.
Atomaria procerula Erichson – RDBK. In rotting timber of a variety of tree species.
Scotland. Mainly a boreo-alpine species in Europe.
Atomaria pulchra Erichson - Has been found in all kinds of decaying wood: heaps of bark
shavings, burnt wood, sawn logs and stacked timber. Widely distributed in
woodlands.
Atomaria puncticollis Thomson – RDBK. Known from sawn timber and mouldy wood
shavings; broad-leaved trees.
Atomaria umbrina (Gyllenhal)* - Nationally Scarce. Associated with the fruiting bodies of
wood-rotting fungi, especially the gill fungi Armillaria mellea and Pholiota spp, in
woodlands. Also taken in grass heaps.
Erotylidae
Triplax aenea (Schaller) - Usually associated with the fungus Pleurotus ostreatus growing on
trunks of broad-leaved trees. Widespread in old wood pastures of Britain, although
possibly absent from East Anglia.
Triplax lacordairii Crotch - RDB3. In Pleurotus and from ash Fraxinus and elm Ulmus;
centred on Thames and Hampshire Basins, but also reported from Worcestershire.
Triplax russica (Linnaeus) - Nationally Scarce B. Develops in fungal fruiting bodies on
various broad-leaved trees, particularly Inonotus hispidus on ash Fraxinus in the west,
while preferring Fomes fomentarius on birch Betula in the north. Also reported from
other broad-leaved trees, without reference to the associated fungus. Adults may also
be found feeding at the bracket fungi.
Triplax scutellaris Charpentier - RDB3. Recorded in Pleurotus, and in fungi on elm Ulmus
and holly Ilex; larvae have been found hibernating in moss at foot of trees, adults
emerging in spring. Known from a few localities in northern England
Tritoma bipustulata Fabricius - Nationally Scarce A. Larvae develop in wood-decay fungi,
especially on beech Fagus. Widespread in lowland England; a single record from S.
Wales.
Dacne bipustulata (Thunberg)* - Adults normally frequent fruiting brackets of the softer
polypore fungi on trunks of broad-leaved trees. Has been reared from Laetiporus
sulphureus & Piptoporus betulinus. Widespread in lowland Britain; rare in Ireland.
Dacne rufifrons (Fabricius) - Adults normally frequent fruiting brackets of the softer
polypore fungi on trunks of broad-leaved trees. Widespread in lowland England but
more local than D. bipustulata. .
Biphyllidae - False Hide Beetles
Biphyllus lunatus (Fabricius) - Develop in the fruiting body of the fungus Daldinia
concentrica growing on ash Fraxinus and, to a lesser extent, other broad-leaved trees;
pupate in the fruit body. Widespread in lowland England, although rarer in the west
where strongly associated with ancient wood pastures; Dyfed. Rare and threatened in
central Europe.
Diplocoelus fagi Guérin-Méneville - Nationally Scarce B. Until recently, exclusively
associated with beech Fagus, the adults occurring under bark on deadwood,
particularly the loose outer layer. In 1998 found in association with sooty bark
disease on sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus logs in the London area. Adults over-
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