Longhorn beetle records

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 Name	Latin Name
Speckled longhorn beetle	Pachytodes cerambyciformis	Map
Timberman Beetle	Acanthocinus aedilis	Map
Tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle	Alosterna tabacicolor	Map
Two-banded longhorn beetle	Rhagium bifasciatum	Map
Umbellifer longhorn beetle	Phytoecia cylindrica	Map
Welsh Longhorn Beetle	Pyrrhidium sanguineum	Map
Black-striped longhorn beetle	Stenurella melanura	Map
Common Grammoptera	Grammoptera ruficornis	Map
Greater thorn-tipped longhorn beetle	Pogonocherus hispidulus	Map
Pine-stump borer	Asemum striatum	Map
Small poplar borer	Saperda populnea	Map
Small-black longhorn beetle	Stenurella nigra	Map
Black-clouded longhorn beetle	Leiopus nebulosus	Map
Fairy-ring longhorn beetle	Pseudovadonia livida	Map
Four-banded longhorn beetle	Leptura quadrifasciata	Map
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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.

Gallery


Black & Yellow spotted longhorn Beetle	Four-banded longhorn beetle	Greater thorn-tipped longhorn beetle	Rufus shouldered longhorn beetle	Two-banded longhorn beetle

Black-spotted longhorn beetle	Speckled longhorn beetle	Common grammoptera	Variable longhorn beetle	Wasp beetle