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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.

Podalonia hirsuta - Hairy Sand Wasp



Range & Status

This species ranges along the southern and western coasts from west Sussex to

Lancashire with an apparently separate population on the Norfolk coast. Widespread on southern heathland, and especially on warm, sandy, coastal sites. Whereas this species has been recorded from numerous sites in both vice-counties in the past, most of the recent records are from VC1. This spectacular hunter of large, subterranean caterpillars has been recorded at numerous post-1980 sites on the Lizard Peninsula, West Penwith and the dune systems on the north Cornish coastline.

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.