Williamston Special Invertebrate Site species list

This is a list of invertebrate species which have been recorded at Williamston Special Invertebrate Site. Not all the records included in this list have been verified. The aim of the list is to give recorders an idea of the range of species found at the site. To the best of our knowledge, this list of records is correct, as of November 2019.

Scientific name English name Andrena scotica Chocolate mining Bombus campestris Field cuckoo bee Bombus hortorum Garden bumblebee Bombus lucorum agg. Bombus pascuorum Common carder bee Bombus pratorum Early bumblebee Bombus terrestris Buff-tailed bumblebee Halictus rubicundus Orange-legged furrow bee Lasioglossum calceatum Common furrow bee Nomada marshamella Marsham’s nomad bee Beetles Calvia quatuordecimguttata Cream-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata 7-spot ladybird Curtonotus aulicus Oiceoptoma thoracicum Red-breasted carrion beetle Rhagonycha fulva Common red soldier beetle Thanatophilus rugosus Bugs Anthocoris nemorum Common flower bug Liocoris tripustulatus Lygus rugulipennis Tarnished plant bug Philaenus spumarius Cuckoo-spit / Common froghopper Butterflies Aglais io Peacock Aglais urticae Small tortoiseshell Lycaena phlaeas Small copper Maniola jurtina Meadow brown Pararge aegeria Speckled wood Pieris napi Green-veined white Vanessa atalanta Red admiral Vanessa cardui Painted lady Bibio pomonae Red-legged St-Mark's Dasysyrphus albostriatus Stripe-backed Dasysyrphus Dexiosoma caninum Epistrophe grossulariae Broad-banded Epistrophe Episyrphus balteatus Marmalade Eriothrix rufomaculata horticola Stripe-winged dronefly Eristalis intricaria Furry dronefly Eristalis nemorum Stripe-faced dronefly Eristalis pertinax Tapered dronefly Eristalis tenax Common dronefly Eupeodes corollae Migrant hoverfly Ferdinandea cuprea Bronze sap hoverfly Helophilus pendulus The footballer Melanostoma scalare Chequered hoverfly Meliscaeva auricollis Spotted Meliscaeva Nephrotoma flavipalpis Rhinga campestris Common snout hoverfly Sericomyia silentis Bog hoverfly Sericomyia superbiens Late bear hoverfly Syrphus ribesii Humming Syrphus Tachina grossa Giant Tachinid Volucella pellucens Great pied hoverfly comtus Harvestmen Dicranopalpus ramosus Fork-palped harvestman Leiobunum rotundum European harvestman Mites Acalitus longisetosus Birch mite Moths Autographa gamma Silver y Agriphila tristella Common grass-veneer Amphipoea spp. Ear moth agg. Argyresthia goedartella Golden argent Cerapteryx graminis Antler moth Geometra papilionaria Large emerald Scotopteryx chenopodiata Shaded broad-bar Yponomeuta evonymella Bird cherry ermine Sawflies Pomphilius sylvaticus Dark leaf-rolling sawfly Stoneflies Leuctra fusca Needle fly Isoperla grammatica Common yellow sally Wasps Mellinus arvensis Field digger wasp Woodlice Oniscus asellus Common shiny woodlouse Porcellio scaber Common rough woodlouse