Cornish Biodiversity Network - Supporting Wildlife Recording
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
Found in damp woodland and ornamental gardens. Hopkin noted that it ' is likely to be present throughout the West Country. In September 2003, I found several specimens on the underside of fallen branches on the ground at Trengwainton Gardens (National Trust) [SW43] in West Cornwall' . Dr. Hopkin also collected it on 31 March 2000 from Marsland Valley (SS21) near Hartland, N. Devon, but it may be on the East Cornwall side of the valley also.
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.