Species Account for Leptophloeus clematidis
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Leptophloeus clematidis (Erichson, 1846)
Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae
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Taxonomic group: beetles (Coleoptera) - Available county data
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Essex RDB: Listed
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NCR. West Thurrock PFA lagoons October 2001 (Hammond). A few old records for Kent and Oxfordshire, one ten years or so back for East Suffolk and one very recent one for Battersea Park in London.
Species text
Hyman & Parsons (1992) state that Leptophloeus (Laemophloeus) clematidis has only been recorded this century from Higham (Kent) in 1913 and near Ipswich (Suffolk) in 1977 and 1978, with old records from Gravesend and Dartford (Kent) and Henley (Oxfordshire). In Hyman & Parsons they state that Nash reports that both A.A. Allen and A. Massee failed to find this species in Kent, and he believes that it may be extinct in that county. It is a predator upon the bark beetle Xylocleptes bispinus which occurs in the dead stems of Traveller`s joy Clematis vitalba. References
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