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Longhorn beetles

Longhorn beetles are very distinctive beetles, with long swept back antenna. They have a strong association with woodlands, plus other situations containing trees and shrubs. Many species are quite easy to identify. They are frequently found on flowers such as hogweed, hawthorn and wild roses, or walking about on dead wood or trees.

At present there are records for 29 species of longhorn beetle in Shropshire. Nigel Jones of the Shropshire Invertebrates Group is compiling records of longhorn beetles in Shropshire with a view to eventually publishing a county review of this small family (in Britain) of beetles.
For more details please contact Nigel Jones (nigelj@insectpix.net).   

Identifying longhorns

British Wildlife magazine Vol 18 No 6: August 2007 and Vol 19 No 1:  October 2007, contain an excellent fully illustrated identification guide to British Longhorn Beetles. Back issues are available from http://www.britishwildlife.com/html/back_issues.html.

There are also some first class photos of longhorn beetles here: http://www.cerambyx.uochb.cz//index.htm

Maps
Click a species name below to see a map of where longhorn records have been made. Large areas of Shropshire remain unexplored, so these records do not represent accurate distributions of these species.
Other Beetles
To find out more about the different groups of beetles and who to send records to in the UK try: www.brc.ac.uk/recording_schemes.asp
 
Longhorn Beetles
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English NameLatin Name 
Black-clouded longhorn beetle Leiopus nebulosus Map
Fairy-ring longhorn beetle Pseudovadonia livida Map
Four-banded longhorn beetle Leptura quadrifasciata Map
Lime longhorn beetle Stenostola dubia Map
Plum longhorn beetle Tetrops praeustus Map
Tanbark borer Phymatodes testaceus Map
Wasp Beetle Clytus arietis Map
Basket longhorn beetle Gracilia minuta Map
Black & yellow longhorn beetle Rutpela maculata Map
Black-spotted longhorn beetle Rhagium mordax Map
Burnt-tip grammoptera Grammoptera ustulata Map
Larch Longhorn Tetropium gabrieli Map
Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle Pogonocherus hispidus Map
Red-collared longhorn beetle Dinoptera collaris Map
Rufous-shouldered longhorn beetle Anaglyptus mysticus Map
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Gallery

Click to view an enlarged image of black and yellow spotted longhorn beetle  Click to view an enlarged image of four banded longhorn beetle  Click to view an enlarged image of greater thorn tipped longhorn beetle Click to view an enlarged image of rufus shouldered longhorn beetle Click to view an enlarged image of two banded longhorn beetle

Black & Yellow spotted longhorn Beetle

 Four-banded longhorn beetle

Greater thorn-tipped longhorn beetle

Rufus shouldered longhorn beetle

Two-banded longhorn beetle

 

Click here to view an enlarged image of black spotted longhorn beetle Click to view an enlarged image of speckled longhorn beetle  Click to view an enlarged image of common grammoptera Click to view an enlarged image of variable longhorn beetle  Click to view an enlarged image of wasp beetle 

Black-spotted longhorn beetle

Speckled longhorn beetle

 Common grammoptera

 Variable longhorn beetle

 Wasp beetle

Longhorn beetle

Photo of longhorn beetle Rutpela maculata (aka Strangalia maculata)

 

 

 

 

About the maps


Search and select a species by the english or scientific name then click 'Map'.

The blue square represents a tetrad (2x2km) and when you click the map a tetrad sized square will be highlighted. To the right of the map you will be told the grid reference of where you clicked, the tetrad name, plus the year the species was last seen there.

Click 'Satellite' on the map to use satellite or aerial photos as the backdrop.  Use the ' + ' and ' - ' symbols to zoom in and zoom out.  Click and hold the map to move around.

You can also zoom to a postcode or place using the search window.

To create a link to that specific place click 'link to this map' at the bottom of the map then copy the web page address from the address window at the top of the screen.

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