Coleoptera Recorder’s Report for 1999

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NOTES ON THE SUFFOLK LIST OF COLEOPTERA

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Coleoptera Recorder’s Report for 1999 This report presents an informal review of the most significant records for the past year and should be considered supplementary to the series of papers which I am publishing herein on the Suffolk list. All records are my own except where stated .The national status of each species as given in Hyman (1992) is provided following the name of each species but, although each record is considered in the county historical context, in the interests of brevity, no other references are cited. CARABIDAE Harpalus punctatulus (Duftschmid) Na A singleton of this Suffolk Middle List BAP species was found in a carrionbaited pitfall trap which I had set in a large semi-wild garden at Wherstead (TM 1641) on 7 August. There are modern records only from Little Blakenham. BUPRESTIDAE Agrilus sinuatus (Olivier) Na A single example (teste DRN) was found by Justin Gant sitting on shaded herbage near Barnham Carr (TL 8879) during the field meeting at Barnham Heath on 18 August. Previously only known from borings found by Colin Plant in its host tree (hawthorn, Crataegus sp.)) at Shrubland Park in 1995. ELATERIDAE Procraerus tibialis (Boisduval & Lacordaire) RDB 3 This rare click beetle was found in numbers in the rotten interior of a fallen ash (Fraxinus excelsior) in Willow Spinney, Brantham (TM 1134) on 31 March. First found in the county (as larvae) at Staverton Park in 1960 by the late Prof. Roy Crowson and later by Howard Mendel during his study of the saproxylic beetles of the Icklingham Plains. DERMESTIDAE Trinodes hirtus (Fabricius) RDB 3 On June 30 a single example was beaten from an old oak (Quercus) with cobwebbed cavities on the edge of a grazed pasture at Freston (TM 1639). This is only the third known locality for this rare species which feeds on the remains of dead flies etc. in spiders’ webs under loose bark, previous records being from Shrubland Park (last recorded June, 1998) and from Brandeston in 1942 (Claude Morley). ANOBIIDAE Hadrobregmus denticollis (Creutzer in Panzer) Nb I beat a single example of this rarely recorded species from a dead hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) in Horringer Park (TL 8162) on 25 May. Added to the Suffolk List by Howard Mendel on the basis of a specimen found by myself on the Icklingham Plains in 1976 and specimens found by him at Lower Hollesley Common in 1978. The species was found again on the Icklingham Plains by myself and Colin Johnson in 1982 and by Howard Mendel in December 1986.

Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 36 (2000)


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