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Bryoporus rugipennis Pandelle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Northern England. — 



This rare montane beetle is mostly known from the north of Scotland, but it has 

 also now been found at three English localities. Day (1923) mentions a record by 

 Donisthorpe from Skiddaw, and K. Houston collected four females in pitfall traps 

 at Cow Green, Upper Teesdale, County Durham in 1967 and 1968. The site is 

 now under the reservoir. These four were identified for Houston by R. C. W. 

 in 1974, but the record has never been published. Two were found in "Calluna 

 grassland on glacial drift overlying Melmerby Limestone" (NY8 14303), the other two 

 in Festuca ovina L. grassland (NY814303). The traps were in operation from late 

 May to late July. 



More recently, a single specimen was found by K. N. A. A. in an area of blanket 

 peat bog at 670 m on the summit ridge about Scar Crags (NY207206), to the 

 west of Causey Pike in the Derwent Fells, Cumbria, 29.vii.1992. The vegetation 

 here is of a typical undegraded high level blanket bog type, with a good cover 

 of the dwarf shrubs Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull, Vaccinium myrtillus L., and Empetrum 

 nigrum L., plus some V. vitis-idaea L., within a matrix of Eriophorum and Juncus 

 squarrosus L. 



The information gathered for the forthcoming Review of the scarce and threatened 

 Coleoptera of Great Britain, Part 2 (Mark Parsons, pers. comm.) so far includes 

 recent Scottish records only from Mid-Perth, S. Aberdeen, Easterness and Wester 

 Ross vice-counties, with older records additionally from Stirlingshire and Elgin. 

 Another unpublished record known to R. C. W. is of three taken in water traps by 

 David Horsfield on ll.vii.1982, at Meall a'Chrasgaith (NH186734) Fannich Hills SSSI, 

 Wester Ross. The traps were placed on "rocky Rhacomitrium health" at 883 m altitude. 

 It is also worth noting that R. C. W. never came across B. rugipennis himself during 

 several years of intensive collecting in the Cairngorms and sorties to many other 

 Scottish peaks. R. C. W. also identified all the Staphylinidae collected by R. Goodier 

 in Snowdonia and no specimens of B. rugipennis were discovered. 



K. N. A. A. would like to thank John Owen for his identification of the specimen 

 of B. rugipennis and Mark Parsons for access to the as yet unpublished national 

 review.— Keith N. A. Alexander, National Trust, 33 Sheep Street, Cirencester, 

 Gloucestershire GL7 1QW, and R. C. Welch, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks 

 Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, PE17 2LS. 



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Day, F. H. 1923. The Coleoptera of Cumberland, Part III. Trans. Carlisle Nat. Hist. Soc. 

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