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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.

Andrena tarsata



Range & Status

A northern European bee, which is widely distributed throughout Britain as far north as west Sutherland. In recent years this moorland and heathland species has undergone a most dramatic decline. Once numerous, with many pre-1976 records and sites, there has been only one record since, at Hensbarrow Downs in 2004. This species has been designated a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) species, and is the host for the cleptoparasite bee Nomada roberjeotiana that has also undergone a dramatic decline.

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.