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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Nomada ferruginata



Range & Status

This Endangered (RDB1) and Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) species was recently (2007) added to the Cornish aculeate fauna from Merthen Wood on the Helford Estuary. A rare species, but formerly widely distributed in southern Britain. There were no records between 1949 and 1987, however, in recent years the species has undergone a resurgence with records form various south-eastern counties. The Cornish record represents a rather disjunct population, the nearest other record being from Dorset. This species is a cleptoparasite of the mining bee Andrena praecox which has also recently (2007) been recorded as new to the Cornish aculeate fauna from Draynes Wood on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.