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Metylophorus nebulosus (Stephens, 1836)

Common in Britain and Ireland.


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The National Biodiversity Network records are shown on the map below.

Distribution map for Metylophorus nebulosus
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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
  • Countryside Council for Wales - Welsh Invertebrate Database (WID)
  • Tullie House Museum - Tullie House Museum. Invertebrate Records other than Lepidoptera. Pre-2009 for Cumbria
  • Lothian Wildlife Information Centre - Lothian Wildlife Information Centre Secret Garden Survey
  • Natural England - Invertebrate Site Register - England.
  • Highland Biological Recording Group - HBRG Insects Dataset
  • Scottish Wildlife Trust - Commissioned surveys and staff surveys and reports for SWT reserves.
  • National Trust - Hatfield Forest species data held by The National Trust.
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Region Main date range Extreme dates
North Late July - Mid September 18 July - 23 October
South Mid July - Early September 1 July - 12 October


Summary: found on branches of deciduous and coniferous/evergreen trees/bushes (no records from trunks).

Associations:

  • Deciduous branches: apple, beech, birch, bird cherry, blackthorn, elder, elm, field maple, hawthorn, oak, sallow and sea buckthorn.
  • Conifer/evergreen branches: broom, holm oak, larch, pine, sitka spruce and yew.

Sampling techniques: beating branches.




 

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