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.
Recorded from a few sites in south-west Britain.
Regional Distribution
Found in two 10km squares at Rame Head and Kynance Cove (Merritt, 1990).
Habitat & Ecology
Occurs in dry heathland and coastal grassland, in association with the ant Tetramorium caespitum which is widespread in Cornwall.
Threats
Loss of heathland.
Conservation
Kynance Cove is within the National Nature Reserve.
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.