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.
Range & Status
Fairly widespread in England, but has been increasingly scarce in recent years and
increasingly confined to the south-east.
Regional Distribution
Millook and about Kilkhampton (Clark, 1906) and Ponts Mill in the Luxulyan Valley in 1981 by C.A. Brind, and Par in 2005.
Habitat & Ecology
Larvae develop in dead roots and stumps of a variety of tree species but especially Oak Quercus spp., Beech Fagus sylvatica and Birch Betula spp. in broadleaved
woodland and pasture-woodland, usually where soils are permanently damp such as along river floodplains.
Threats
Loss of older age classes of broadleaved trees and clearance of decaying stumps.
Conservation
Retention of overmature trees and their associated deadwood.
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.