Uncommon in Britain and Ireland
The National Biodiversity Network records are shown on the map below.
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The following datasets are included:
- National Trust - Wicken Fen nature reserve species data held by The National Trust
- National Barkfly Recording Scheme - Outdoor Psocoptera (barkfly) records for Britain & Ireland, 1850 to present.
- Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre - Patrick Roper's Notebooks
- Tullie House Museum - Tullie House Museum. Invertebrate Records other than Lepidoptera. Pre-2009 for Cumbria
- Natural England - Invertebrate Site Register - England.
- Scottish Wildlife Trust - Commissioned surveys and staff surveys and reports for SWT reserves.
Summary: formerly found commonly on haystacks and now occasionally found on straw bales. Tends to be more frequent on tree trunks than tree branches. Can be very numerous in suction trap catches.
Associations:
- Deciduous branches: beech, elm and oak.
- Deciduous trunks: beech, birch and oak.
- Conifer/evergreen branches: broom, pine, sitka spruce and yew.
- Other microhabitats: haystacks, in heap of wild oat straw, old robin nest, straw bales.
Sampling techniques: beating branches, brushing tree trunks and suction trap.
