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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.

Mycetophagus atomarius - A hairy fungus beetle



Range & Status

Throughout England and extending into southern Scotland.

Regional Distribution

Listed in Clark (1906) but then not seen until 1989, when recorded in Stowe Woods;

subsequently found in Lanhydrock Woods in 1995 and at Boconnoc Estate in 2006.

Habitat & Ecology

In Cornwall, primarily associated with Daldinia fungus growing on Ash Fraxinus excelsior in ancient woodlands and pasture-woodlands; will also breed under fungoid Beech Fagus sylvatica bark, with black encrusting Hypoxylon fragiforme on dead and dying Beech.

Threats

Loss of the older age classes of Ash and Beech from native woodlands.

Conservation

Retention of overmature trees and their associated deadwood.

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.



Cornish Biodiversity Network. 2017.