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
In Britain this species is confined to southern England mainly in the south-eastern counties but with a somewhat disjunct population in west Cornwall. A late summer bee, with both sexes nectaring and females collecting pollen from Red Bartsia Odontites verna . This species has only been recorded at two sites in Cornwall, even thought the host plant is quite common here. One very old record from Porthcothan in VC2 and the most recent record is from Loggan' s Moor near Hayle in VC1. The population size at Loggan' s Moor (a Cornwall Wildlife Trust nature reserve) is small and may well be threatened.
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.