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Graphopsocus cruciatus (Linnaeus, 1768)

Common in Britain and Ireland

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Region Main date range Extreme dates
North All year All year
South All year All year

Low numbers of adults observed during the winter.



Summary: found on very wide range of trees, shrubs and other microhabitats.

Associations:

  • Deciduous branches: apple, ash, beech, birch, blackthorn, bramble, elder, field maple, hawthorn, hazel, lime, oak, rose, sallow, sea buckthorn, spindle and willows.
  • Deciduous trunks: beech.
  • Conifer/evergreen branches: Berberis, box, Chinese juniper, Choisia ternata, cypress family, gorse, holly, holm oak, ivy, juniper, larch, pines, Rhododendron, sitka spruce and yew.
  • Other microhabitats: Angelica, bracken, grassland, log pile, marsh, mistletoe and snowdrop.

Sampling techniques: beating branches, brushing tree trunks, malaise trap and sweep netting.

 

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