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Invertebrate survey by Gloucestershire Invertebrate Group 15th June 2011

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Gloucestershire Invertebrate Group Tewkesbury Meeting Report – Prior’s Park, 15th June 2011. Nature Reserve

Leaders: Colin and Ingrid Twissell.

Tewkesbury Nature Reserve Ltd is in the process of establishing a Nature Reserve at Swilgate Meadows; a grassland site, with trees, bushes, balancing pond and other temporary ponds, with the R. Swilgate and Tirlebrook running through the site. The site is prone to flooding. This evening’s meeting was held to help with the audit of the area and a follow-up meeting was done 28th June 2011. 7 members attended on a dull evening after a dull day and found the following species: Arachnids:

Theridion pictum 3f Enoplognatha ovata m Tetragnatha extensa

Misumena vatia (white Pachynatha clerki female) Tetragnatha montana m

Tibellus oblongus Larinioides cornutus Pisaura mirabilis

Agelena labyrinthica Clubiona stagnatilis Philodromus cespitum

Hypselistes jacksoni Mangora acalypha immature Hypselistes jacksoni to my knowledge has only been recorded once before from Coombe Hill Meadows, SO87-27-, 24/4/05 by John Harper. The Atlas (2002) says it is uncommon but can be frequent in wet or marshy areas and bogs and heathland. Mangora acalypha has not been recorded this far north, east of the R. Severn in Gloucestershire. The Atlas shows it as far north as Worcestershire and Norfolk. It is widespread in the FOD. Beetles:

Soldier Beetle Soldier Beetle Soldier Beetle

Cantharis nigra Cantharis rufa Cantharis figurate

Soldier Beetle Longhorn Beetle

Tortoise Beetle

Cantharis lateralis Tetrops praeustus Cassida vibex

Leaf Beetle Leaf Beetle

Gastrophysa viridula Oedemera nobilis 10-spot Ladybird

7-spot Ladybird Harlequin Ladybird 14 spot ladybird

22 spot ladybird sphaerium sp Dusky sallow larva Heteroptera (True Bugs):

Chinchbug, Nettlebug,

Lygaeidae Ischnodemus sabuleti Heterogaster urticae Hairy Shielbug

Dolycoris baccarum oreus marginatus soldier fly

Nabidae Nabis flavomarginatus Miridae

Grassland/low herbage

Capsus Ater Leptopterna dolobrata Notostira elongata

Stenodema calcaratum Adelphocoris lineolatus Stenotus binotatus

liocoris tripustulatus Nabis limbata Philaneus spumaris General:

Rhogogaster viridis Sphaerophoria scripta Ringlet butterfly Coenagrion puella Ischnura elegans chloromyia formosa

sphaerophoria interrupta chrysotoxum verralli epistrophe diaphana

episyrphus balteatus eristalis nemorum eristalis tenax

eupeodes corollae helophilus hybridus merodon equestris

asellus aquaticus gammarus lacustris lymnaea peregra

l. stagnalis physa fontinalis ancylus lacustris Slender ground hopper

cheilosia albitarsis sensu lato cheilosia illustrata tetrix subulata

Amber snail herald snail

volucella bombylans Succinea putris Carychium minimum

Dusky slug

arion cf ater arion cf rufus arion subfuscus

White lipped snail Hairy snail

Slippery moss snail cepaea hortensis trochulus hispidus cochlicopa lubricella

polycelis tenuis dugesia polychroa dugesia tigrina

hemiclepsis marginata glossiphonia complanata erpobdella octoculata a planorbid