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First Lancashire and Cheshire records of true bugs (: ) with revised county checklists Dr. Stephen Judd National Museums Liverpool, William Brown St., Liverpool, L3 8EN, [email protected]

Introduction An impressive 45 true bug species have been recorded for the first time from Lancashire and Cheshire since the last county checklist was published some 25 years ago (Judd, 1986). They are summarised below and include 45 first records for Lancashire (VC59 & VC60) and 42 first records for Cheshire (VC58). Updated county checklists are also presented here, with 274 species now recorded from Lancashire (194 localised for VC59 and 165 for VC60) and 293 species recorded from Cheshire. Records have been obtained from a number of sources. Cheshire and some Lancashire records are held on the rECOrd database and some VC60 records are held by the Cumbria Biodiversity Record Centre. Unlocalised records for aquatic bugs are published as dot maps in Guest et al. (2003) and Huxley (2003). Modern vouchers for specimens recorded by M.D. Bigmore, C. Felton, L.W. Hardwick, S. Judd, G.T. Knight and I.D. Wallace are housed in the National Museums Liverpool (NML) collection. Records for Sound Common, Cheshire, Sefton Coast dune heath and Ainsdale Sandhills LNR are published in Judd (1995, 1996, 1999 & 2002). Historic, pre-1970 records, were extracted from county checklists compiled by Whittaker (1906 & 1908), Britten (1930), Massee (1955) - including additional unpublished annotations made by the author to this checklist; Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee cards housed at Manchester Museum; voucher specimens collected by W.E. Sharp and J.W. Ellis housed in the NML collection; Flint’s (1964) unpublished report on the Hemiptera of Ainsdale National Nature Reserve and a database of Sefton Coast invertebrates, maintained by NML. N.J Steeden provided an impressive 77 first VC60 records, including 19 new to Lancashire. The remaining records have been provided by other individual fieldworkers.

First county records

NEPIDAE Waterscorpions Water Stick Ranatra linearis (L.) - An adult netted by J.P. Guest from a pond at Mobberley, Cheshire (SJ8082) on 19th June 2002 (Guest, 2002) was the first record for Cheshire. R. Jackson at Ollerton (SJ783749) located a second specimen, on 27th May 2004. A third specimen was caught in a bottle trap, near Bramhall (SJ909841), set by M. Robinson in May 2004. Another one was netted by D. Bentley on 27th May 2007 at a pond in Knutsford (SJ7698) and M. Tynen recorded it on 11th June 2008 at Lawton Hall Lake (SJ8242955510), between Stoke and Congleton. D. Bentley also recorded the first Lancashire record (VC59) when he found this species by torchlight on 26th May 2007 at Barracks Lodge, Bury, Greater Manchester (SD78451032). Waterboatmen scholtzi (Fb.) - Listed as rare in Cheshire by Guest et al. (2003). S. Judd collected the first specimen from a saline pool at Aldersey Green (SJ463568) on 18th June 1986 and this was determined by I.D. Wallace. On 10th August 2001 J. Guest found a few specimens in the ditch-like outflow stream from Watch Lane Flash (SJ7260). (Fab.) - Recorded for the first time in Cheshire when hundreds of adults were found by J.P. Guest at Forge Brook, Northwich (SJ665757) on 14th July 1999 (Guest, 2002). Subsequently also by J.P. Guest in the side-race of the Church Bridge lock on the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal (SJ5646) - probably on 1st June 2003. J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 1 Backswimmers Notonecta maculata Fab - There are three post-1970 Lancashire (VC59) records for this species in the distribution map presented by Huxley (2003). However, the first county record was by J. Denton in 1990 from the Sefton Coast (VC59) at Slack 104, Ainsdale NNR. Notonecta viridis (Delcourt) [= N. marmorea Fab.] - Not recorded in Massee (1955) or Judd (1986) for Lancashire or Cheshire. Listed as rare in Cheshire by Guest et al. (2003). The first Cheshire record was on 23rd June 1975 by A. Muir at Neston Ponds, Neston, Wirral (SJ299771). There are five post 1970 records for Lancashire (VC59 & 60) in Huxley (2003). I have no details of the first county record. Pondskaters Swamp Pondskater Gerris lateralis Schum. - Listed as scarce in Cheshire by Guest et al. (2003). The first Cheshire record was in 1976 by A.A. Savage at Petty Pool Brook and Whitegate Marsh (SJ618701). Shorebugs Chartoscirta elegantula (Fall) - Recorded new to Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden on 26th September 2003 from a clay slope by the River Wyre, south of Knott End (SD346477). There were further records from this site in 2004 and 2009. Halosalda lateralis (Fall.) - First collected in Cheshire by S. Judd on 23rd July 1993 at Burton saltmarsh (SJ301735). Saldula palustris (Doug.) - The first Lancashire record (VC60) was found in April 2002 by J.M. Newton on bare mud in a saltmarsh at Sunderland (SD422557). Salda muelleri (Gmelin) - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) on 28th May 1989 by N.J. Steeden from Winmarleigh Moss (SD442476). There are no Cheshire records. Lacebugs Acalypta nigrina (Fall.) - Recorded for the first time in England by J.M. Newton on 19th July 2007 from the Bowland Fells, Lancashire at Long Clough (SD665590 - VC60) (Newton, 2008). Dictyla convergens (H.-S.) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC60) by S. Hewitt in 1995 from Hawes Water (SD4776). Dictyonota strichnocera Fb. - First collected in Lancashire (VC59) by S. Judd on Gorse Ulex europaeus at Pex Hill, Cronton (SD5088) on 8th September 1984. Physatocheila dumetorum (H.-S.) - The first Lancashire (VC60) record was on 14th September 2008 by N.J. Steeden from Hawthorn bordering Peel Clay Pit (SD356309). Creeping Thistle Lace Bug Tingis ampliata (H.-S.) - First recorded in Cheshire by S. Judd from beside the River Weaver at Frodsham (SJ540787) on 18th June 1988. This species has subsequently been widely recorded in the county, with records from at least 12, 10km squares. The first Lancashire record (VC60) by N.J. Steeden was on 22nd May 1992 from a St Annes garden (SD328292) and the first VC59 records were by S.J. McWilliam on 20th September 2000 from grassland at Willow Farm Wood, near Preston (SD586257 and SD587258) and on 21st September from South Meadow, Longworth Clough, near Bolton (SD701149). Minutebugs Myrmedobia exilis (Fall.) [= M. tenella] - A specimen in the NML collection, found by M.G. Fitton on 27th August 1969 and confirmed by L.N. Kidd, from Abbots Moss (SJ5868), is the first Cheshire record. Capsidbugs Dicyphus annulatus (Wolff) - One adult recorded by S. Judd from a fixed dune ridge at Ainsdale Sandhills LNR (SD2911) on 11th July 2000 was the first record for Lancashire (VC59). Two more specimens were recorded from Salix in a slack at the same site by C. Felton on 8th October 2000. Dicyphus errans (Wolff) - First recorded from Cheshire by S. Judd on 30th September 1993 from Sound Common (SJ6248) with a second record by S.J. McWilliam on 7th July 1997 from Hawarden (SJ317702). Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur) - Recorded for the first time in Cheshire by L.W. Hardwick on 22nd May 1987 from Witton Flashes (SJ662753). Alloetomus gothicus (Fall.) - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) on 11th August 2000 by N.J Steeden from a MV trap set in a St Annes garden (SD337298). flavilinea (A. Costa) - This species has been rapidly spreading since it was first recorded in Britain in 1996 (Miller, 2001). The first Cheshire record was a single specimen collected by A.J. Ramsay (Ramsay, 2010) sweeping a Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna hedgerow in a cattle grazed field near Northwich, Cheshire (SJ694723) on 26th July 2007. It was first recorded in Lancashire (VC59) by J. McGaw from a young planted woodland site at Lunt, near Crosby (SD342014) on 23rd June 2008. The second Lancashire record, again in VC59, was made by C. Rowan on 19th and 21nd June 2010 when he photographed this specimen on Field Scabious Knautia arvensis in a small patch of wildflowers in an urban courtyard at Hulme (SJ836965).

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 2 Deraeocoris lutescens (Schill.) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC59) on the Sefton Coast by C. Felton on 17th June 1997 when an adult was found in scrub at Freshfield Dune Heath (SD293089). Apolygus [Lygocoris] spinolai (M.D.) - Three adults collected by S. Judd from Creeping Willow in a slack at Ainsdale Sandhills LNR (SD2911) on 7th July 2000 were the first Lancashire (VC59) records. Lygocoris populi Leston - A single record, the first from Cheshire, by S.J. McWilliam on 28th August 2000 from Cheadle Royal Business Park, Lakeside, Manchester (SJ85298708). Lygus maritimus Wagner - The first Lancashire (VC59) record was from Ainsdale Sandhills LNR (SD2911) where eight adults were collected by S. Judd from Sea Rocket Cakile maritima and Orache sp. on frontal low mobile dunes on 14th September 2000. European Tarnished Plant Bug Lygus rugulipennis Poppius - First recorded from Lancashire (VC59) at Ainsdale Sandhills LNR (SD2911) when an adult was swept from nettles on 29th June 2000. The first Cheshire record was collected by R.A. Askew in October 1976 from Abbots Moss (SJ5868). This species has been widely recorded subsequently. Megacoelum infusum (H.-S.) - The first Lancashire (VC60) specimen of this bug was beaten from on 25th August 2003 by N.J. Steeden at Westby Wood, Weeton (SD385338). The second record, also by N.J. Steeden, was on 13th August 2006 from Carr Bridge Wood, Westby (SD361332 - VC60). pini Kirsch - Collected for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden on 17th August 1996 when a specimen was attracted to a MV trap set in a St Annes garden (SD337298). Megaloceraea recticornis (Geoff.) - Recorded for the first time in Cheshire by J. McGaw from Bidston Moss (SJ293912) on 9th July 2007 and again on 20th August 2008 from Cross Lane, Wirral (SJ287917), a former landfill site adjacent to Bidston Moss, which has been transformed into public access grassland & woodland. Heterocordylus genistae (Scop.) - Recorded for the first time from Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden on 7th July 1986 from Dyer’s Broom at Warton Bank (SD407271). flavinervis (Kirsch.) - There are unattributed Cheshire records on Natural England files for Quoisely Big Mere (SJ546456) and Little Mere (SJ549456) in 1979. This species was also collected by S. Judd from Inner Marsh Farm (SJ307737) on 20th July 1993. The first Lancashire record (VC59) was a specimen collected by L.N. Kidd on 21st July 1977 from Greenhurst Clough, Ashton Under Lyne (SD90). Orthotylus tenellus (Fall.) - First recorded in Cheshire on 6th June 1987 by L.W. Hardwick from Weaverham Country Park (SJ612737). He also recorded it from the same location on 22nd June 1987 and from Woolston Eyes (SJ653884) on 6th August 1988. Orthotylus adenocarpi (Perris) - First recorded in Cheshire on 20th July 1988 by L.W. Hardwick from Over, Winsford (SJ641654). Pseudoloxops coccineus (M.-D.) - Recorded for the first time by N.J. Steeden from Lancashire (VC60) on 19th August 2001 by the railway at Eastham (SD383288). cinnamopterus (Kirsch.) - The first Lancashire record for this species was on 3rd September 1996 from a light trap set at St Annes (SD337298). It has also been recorded on 2nd July 2006 at Carr Green Common (SD471368) and on 8th October 2006 at Lightfood Green Fulwood (SD517339). All records by N.J. Steeden. D. & S. - An old and unattributed entry on the rECOrd database for Wallasey had seemed unlikely until a single specimen of this species was definitely recorded for the first time in Cheshire by A.J. Ramsay (Ramsay, 2010) at the margin of a brownfield site near Lostock Gralam, Cheshire (SJ705746) on 7th August 2007. There is also an unlocalised Lancashire record (Massee, 1955). Atractotomus mali (Meyer-Dur) - There are two Cheshire records. The first by L.W. Hardwick on 27th August 1987 from Sherrat’s Rough, Whitegate (SJ617693) and second by D. Ellis on 29th August 1996 from Alderley Edge (SJ843787). Megalocoleus molliculus (Fall.) - The first Cheshire record was collected by L.W. Hardwick on 6th August 1988 from Woolston Eyes (SJ653884). Oncotylus viridiflavus (Goeze) - Recorded for the first time in Cheshire by J. McGaw from Wheeldon Copse (SJ513736) on 24th July 2006 and again on 20th August 2008 from Cross Lane (SJ287917), a former landfill site adjacent to Bidston Moss, which has been transformed into public access grassland & woodland. perrisi (Mulsant & Rey) - First recorded in Cheshire on 5th July 1977 by R.A. Askew from Abbots Moss (SJ5868) with subsequent records by L.W. Hardwick for Whitegate Way (SJ617678) on 14th and 22nd June 1987 and Little Budworth Common (SJ588655) between 1978 and 1991. Psallus wagneri Ossiannilsson - Collected for the first time in Cheshire by S. Judd on 16th July 1996 from Alderley Edge (SJ843787) with another record from the same location the next day by C. Felton (det. S.J.). Psallus flavellus Stichel - The first Cheshire record was on 16th July 1996 by S. Judd was from Alderley Edge (SJ843787). Psallus haematodes (Gmelin) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC60) on 11th August 1996 by N.J. Steeden who beat it from Sallow on Winmarleigh Moss (SD449478).Two adults collected by S. Judd sweeping Salix J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 3 repens at Woodvale Dune Heath (SD302093) on 15th July 1997 were the first VC59 records. This common species was also collected from Ainsdale Sandhills LNR (SD2911) from a grazed slack by S. Judd on 25th August 2000. J.W. Ellis first collected this species, which was not included in the last checklist, from Wallasey (SJ3092), Cheshire on 21st July 1903. The first modern Cheshire records are from Quoisely Big Mere (SJ546456) and Little Mere (SJ549456) in 1979 (both unattributed and originating from Natural England files). Psallus mollis (Mulsant & Rey) - The first Cheshire records were on 16th and 17th July 1996 by S. Judd from Alderley Edge (SJ843787). Tytthus pygmaeus (Zett.) - First recorded from Lancashire (VC59) by C. Felton on 29th July 1997 (Det. S. Judd), who swept a single adult from acid grassland at Woodvale Dune Heath on the Sefton Coast (SD294094). This species was also recorded for the first time from Cheshire in 1990 by D. Sheppard from Black Lake, Delamere (SJ536709). Damselbugs Himacerus apterus (Fab.) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden on 20th September 2009 from a wood margin near the Lea Gate Hotel, Lea (SD477297). lineatus Dahl - Recorded for the first and only time in Cheshire by D. Sheppard from Linmer Moss (SJ544708) in 1990. Nabis ericetorum Scholtz - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden from mossland at Out Rawcliffe (SD404449) on 12th October 1986. The first VC59 records were by S.J. McWilliam from four compartments at Hic Bibi Nature Reserve (SD5612) on 27th and 29th August 2000. Flowerbugs alpinus Reuter - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden on 12th April 2004 at Medlar Woods, Medlar (SD422351). Elatophilus nigricornis (Zett.) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC60) by R. Petley-Jones (det. S. Hewitt) from Hawes Water (SD4776) in 1995 (Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre Record). Tetraphleps bicuspis (H.-S.) - First recorded in Cheshire on 22nd September 1987 by L.W. Hardwick from Whitegate Way (SJ617678) with a subsequent record on 2nd October 1996 by S. Judd from Alderley Edge (SJ843787). Dufouriellus ater (Dufour) - Recorded for the first and only time from Cheshire by D. Sheppard in 1979 from Quoisley Big Mere (SJ546456). Buchananiella continua (F.B. White) - This pantropical anthocorid was first found in Britain in 1995 (Kirby, 1999) and has subsequently been widely recorded in England. The first Cheshire record was from Dunham Park, Altringham (SJ7387), where K.N.A. Alexander knocked two specimens from aerial dead branches on open-grown oak trees on 23rd June and 17th September. Seedbugs Cymus melanocephalus Fb. - The first and only Cheshire record was by Colin Plant on 19th April 1999 from the area of Peel Hall, Warrington (SJ6191). Chinch Bug Ischnodemus sabuleti (Fall.) - First recorded in Lancashire (VC60) by N.J. Steeden from Carr Green Common, Inskip (SD473374) on 30th November 2003. Adults swept in large numbers by G.T. Knight from dead leaves of Reed Grass Phalaris arundinacea at Stadt Moers Country Park, Whiston (SJ463906) on 24th March 2005 were the first VC59 records. grossipes (De Geer) - Astonishingly, I know of no Lancashire records for this species until 15th July 1997 when M.D. Bigmore beat 29 nymphs from pine at Woodvale Dune Heath (SD293092). One adult and five nymphs were collected by S. Judd on 8th September 2000 from Ainsdale LNR (SD2911). (Flor) - This uncommon species was recorded for the first time from Cheshire among 64 Heteroptera recorded during a survey of Sound Common (SJ620480) (Judd, 1995). It was collected by C. Felton on 5th August 1994 from an area of dry heath. A second Cheshire location was confirmed by J. McGaw, who recorded it from Wybunbury Moss (SJ697503) on 31st July 2009. The first Lancashire (VC60) record was found at a bog near Tootle Hall Brock (SD561448) by N.J. Steeden on 10th October 2010. grandis Horv. - Two adults recorded by S. Judd on 13th June 1985 from Little Budworth Common (SJ587660) were the first records for Cheshire. Macrodema microptera (Curt.) - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) on 7th May 1994 by N.J. Steeden at Winmarleigh Moss (SD442476) with further records by him from this location on 21st May 1995, 7th May 2005, 18th June 2005, 2nd July 2005 and 16th July 2005. Trapezonotus arenarius (L.) - Recorded for the first time in Cheshire by R.A. Askew on 7th May 1976 and 9th May 1978 from Abbots Moss (SJ5868). Trapezonotus desertus (L.) - Adults and nymphs were recorded for the first time in Lancashire at three dune heath locations on the Sefton Coast (VC59) between June and August 1997. They were found under over- mature heather at Freshfield (SD293090), under intermittently mown heather at Formby Golf Course (SD290092) and under both cut and young heather and in acid grassland at Woodvale (SD293093).

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 4 Graptopeltus lynceus (Fab.) - A single specimen, the first and only record for Lancashire (VC59), was pitfall- trapped between 19th July and 1st August 1993, from Ravenmeols Sand Dunes LNR (SD280055) (Haughton & Bell, 1996). It was found in an area of intensively rabbit grazed grey-dune/ semi-fixed dune, where areas of bare sand were common, and where it is probably associated with Hound’s-tongue Cynoglossum officinale. A single specimen was also recorded from VC60 by N.J. Steeden at the base of Marram Grass Ammophila arenaria on dunes south of Thursby Home, St Annes (SD310305) on 21st September 2008. Beetbugs Parapiesma [=] quadratum (Fb) - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (VC60) on 15th March 1998 by N.J. Steeden on a river bank near Liscoe Out Rawcliffe (SD385405). This bug has since been found at three more localities by N.J. Steeden on the Wyre Peninsula. Berytinus montivagus (Meyer-Dür) - Two specimens in the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, collected by James Murray on 29th June 1915 from Hest bank, Morecambe represent historic a first Lancashire (VC60) record (Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre Record). Squashbugs Western Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Heid.) - This large, conspicuous, rapidly spreading, recent addition to Britain was first recorded in Cheshire by Paul Hillyer when he found a specimen in his Widnes (SJ485864) garden moth trap on 11th September 2010. Ken Blamire found the first Lancashire (VC60) record on 21st September 2010 on the washing hung out in his garden in Morecambe (SD436639). Coriomeris denticulatus (Scop.) - The first Lancashire (VC60) record of this distinctive bug was made by J.M. Newton who collected it on 31st May 2005 from sparse open grassland with Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus on a south-west facing slope at the Lancashire Wildlife Trust Heysham Nature Reserve (SD407599). Corizus hyoscyami (L.) - I have not been able to locate a Lancashire record to support the ‘+’ for this species in Massee’s (1955) county distribution matrix. The first confirmed Lancashire record was made on 15th July 2009 by P. Brash who suction sampled a specimen at Formby (SD272077) from Stork’s-bill Erodium cicutarium on sparsely vegetated open dune habitat. He suction sampled a second specimen the next day, also at Formby (SD273074) from Rest-harrow on sparsely vegetated open dune habitat. Two specimens of this species were also recorded by A.J. Ramsay under the base of a large Stork’s-bill plant growing in bare sand/ moss on 4th April 2011 at Ainsdale Hills Lancashire (SD293111). This species has been recorded from the North Wales coast in recent years and should be looked for in coastal Cheshire locations. It hasn’t been recorded in Cheshire since Whittaker (1906) referred to a specimen ‘taken on the coast many years ago’. Liorhyssus hyalinus (Fab.) - A single specimen collected by J. McGaw on 9th August 2005 from a recently constructed scrape at Leasowe Common, Wirral (SJ24169099), was the first Cheshire record. This species should be looked for in Lancashire under Common Stork’s-bill Erodium cicutarium. Rhopalus subrufus (Gm.) - A specimen collected by J.M. Newton (det. S. Hewitt) on scrubby limestone pavement at Yealand Hall Allotment (SD492761) on 10th May 2000 is the first Lancashire (VC60) record. The second Lancashire record, also by J.M. Newton is from Warton Crag (SD491731 - VC60) in September 2000. Chorosoma schillingi (Schum.) - First collected from Cheshire on 4th September 1987 by S.J. McWilliam and L.W. Hardwick at Wallasey Sand Dunes (SJ276924 & SJ276925). They also collected this species on 7th September 1996 from Hilbre Island (SJ185979 & SJ185880). Myrmus miriformis (Fall.) - The first Cheshire specimen was collected by I.F. Smith whilst sweeping stabilised dunes at Meols, Wirral (SJ226901) on 3rd September 2005. A further two sites were discovered by A.J. Ramsay in 2008 (Ramsay, 2010) - a large population at East Clifton limebeds (SJ529789) on 24th July 2008 and populations along the disused Weaverham to Wallerscote railway line (SJ635733 and SJ626731). Five adults collected by M.D Bigmore and S. Judd from acid grassland at Woodvale Dune Heath (SD294094) on 15th July 1997 were the first Lancashire records (VC59). Shieldbugs Pied Shieldbug Sehirus bicolor (L.) - There are records from Cheshire by S.J. McWilliam on 14th May from riverside locations at Nantwich (SJ650528 and SJ649513) and from a hay meadow at Rod Wood (SJ99585311) on 15th May 2000. Bishop’s Mitre Aelia acuminata (L.) - This distinctive bug was recorded for the first time from Cheshire by J. McGaw among Marram grass Ammophila arenaria at West Kirby dunes (SJ20718754) on 27th July and 3rd August 2005. He recorded it again, the next year, at Meols Common, Cheshire (SJ23649078) on 17th August 2006 (McGaw 2006). The first Lancashire (VC60) record was on 6 October 2007 by N.J. Steeden who swept it at Lytham St Annes Golf Course (SD343278). It has now become established in this area. The first VC59 record was on 25th July 2011 by C. Felton who found it in numbers on a low dune at Raven Meols Dunes (SJ279052) on the Sefton Coast.

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 5 Dolycoris baccarum (L.) - This is another shieldbug that is spreading in both counties. It was first recorded from Cheshire by S.H. Hind from Ochreley Brook, Grove (SJ9397) on 23rd April 1992. A second specimen was recorded the next year by S. Judd at Inner Marsh Farm (SJ307737) on 20th July 1993, during a survey of the Upper Dee Estuary (Judd, 1993). The first naturalised record of this species from Lancashire (VC60) was recorded from Heysham Nature Reserve (SD4059) in 1997. Green Shieldbug Palomena prasina (L.) - The first Cheshire record was found in S. Judd’s garden at Helsby (SJ488750) in 1992. It had possibly been introduced on herbaceous plants that had been transplanted from Kent. The first established Cheshire record was from Sound Common (SJ620480) on 30th September 1993. Subsequently, this species appears to have become widely established in both Cheshire and Lancashire. Eysarcoris fabricii (Kirk.) - I thought that the first Cheshire specimen for this species was collected by S.H. Hind from Hedge Woundwort Stachys sylvatica by the Shropshire union Canal at Minshull Vernon (SJ6760) on 21st August 2005. However, this record is pre-dated by specimens from riverside at Nantwich (SJ649526) on 14th May 1997 collected by S.J. McWilliam who also collected it from Weaver Valley Parkway, Winsford (SJ65726780) on 26th August 1997. J. McGaw collected it from Bidston Moss (SJ294911) on 5th June 2007; P. Hill collected it from Brereton Country (SJ798651) on 18th September 2008 and a single adult was also recorded by A.J Ramsay (Ramsay, 2010) sweeping a disused railway margin at Mickle Trafford, Cheshire (SJ424682) on 16th July 2008. This is a species that should be looked out for in Lancashire. Troilus luridus (Fab.) - Recorded for the first time in Lancashire (SD60) by N.J. Steeden from Carr Bridge Wood, Westby (SD361332) on 7th March 2008. The first VC59 record was by Peter Morries in April 2001 from Summerseat Nature Reserve, Ramsbottom (SD793148).

Contentious county records CORIXIDAE Waterboatmen (D. & S.) - This species was included in Guest et al. (2003) in their review of Cheshire water bugs but should be removed from the main list (Guest, pers. comm.). There is an unattributed and undated entry on the rECOrd database for Wirral Country Park (SJ2485). A possible A.A. Savage record from SJ67 (possibly Petty Pool), is also unconfirmed (Guest pers. comm.). A file record for the Sefton Coast (VC59) is also unconfirmed and not included in the checklist.

GERRIDAE Aquarius najas (De Geer) - Guest (2002) regarded this species as unconfirmed in Cheshire despite references in Huxley (2003) and Massee (1955). All reports are from within the distribution of G. costai, the largest known pondskater in the region, and not on lowland lakes or rivers, as might be expected. The same may be said of a record by Benjamin Cooke, who found it in profusion during September 1905 at Marple. Massee (1955) listed this species from Lancashire but I can find no record to validate this. CORIXIDAE affinis Leach - Cheshire records on the rECOrd database for this predominantly southern coastal species, primarily associated with brackish pools, are mistaken. This species was not recorded from the county in Guest (2002). MIRIDAE Trigonotylus caelestialium (Kirk.) - Wrongly coded in the rECOrd database. Orthotylus fuscescens (Kirsch) - Two pre-1980 records of this species on the rECOrd database seem very unlikely and are not supported by voucher specimens. Aradus aterrimus Fb. - An entry on the rECOrd database for this RDB3 species, which is only known in Britain from South East England, from Leasowe Pond (SJ2891) by C. Cheesman on 27th May 1977 is not supported by a voucher specimen and has not been included. STENOCEPHALIDAE agilis (Scop.) - The record for Lancashire in Massee (1955) probably refers to a specimen found in an office in Liverpool in July 1908 (Whitaker, 1908). This would almost certainly have been accidentally introduced and so I have not included it in this checklist.

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 6 Revised Checklist of Lancashire and Cheshire True Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) C Cheshire post 1970; [C] Cheshire pre-1970; L Lancashire post 1970; [L] Lancashire pre-1970 - unlocalized to VC59 or VC60. Most records published in Massee’s (1955) vice county distribution table. 59 VC59 South Lancaster (Lancashire south of the River Ribble) post 1970; [59] VC59 South Lancaster pre 1970; 60 VC60 West Lancaster (Lancashire north of the River Ribble) post 1970; [60] VC60 West Lancaster pre 1970

Dipsocoromorpha Hydrometra stagnorum (L.) C L 59 60 CERATOCOMBINAE CERATOCOMBINI MICROVELIINAE MICROVELIINI coleoptratus (Zett.) C [L] [59] Microvelia pygmaea (Duf.) [C] . . . Microvelia reticulata (Burm.) C L 59 . Cryptostemma alienum H.-S. [C] L . 60 VELIINAE Velia caprai Tam. C L 59 60 GERRIDAE GERRINAE GERRINI NEPINAE NEPINI Gerris argentatus Schum. C [L] . . Nepa cinerea L. C L 59 60 Gerris costae (H.-S.) C L 59 . RANATRINAE RANATRINI Gerris gibbifer Schum. C L 59 . Ranatra linearis (L.) C L 59 . Gerris lacustris (L.) C L 59 60 CORIXIDAE Gerris odontogaster (Zett.) C L 59 60 Gerris thoracicus Schum. C L 59 60 Micronecta scholtzi (Fb.) C . . . Gerris lateralis Schum. C [L] [59]. CYMATIAINAE bonsdorffii (Sahlb.) C L 59 . (Fab.) C . . . AEPOPHILIDAE GLAENOCORISINI Aepophilus bonnairei Sig. . [L] . . propinqua (Fb.) C L 59 . SALDIDAE CORIXINAE CHILOXANTHINAE germari (Fb.) C L 59 60 Chiloxanthus pilosus (Fall.) [C] [L] . [60] praeusta (Fb.) C L 59 60 SALDINAE SALDOIDINI (D. & S.) C L 59 . Chartoscirta cincta (H.-S.) C L 59 60 Corixa dentipes (Thom.) C L 59 . Chartoscirta cocksii (Curtis) C [L] . . (Fb.) C L 59 60 Chartoscirta elegantula (Fall.) [C] L . 60 Corixa punctata (Ill.) C L 59 60 Halosalda lateralis (Fall.) C L . 60 castanea (Thom.) C [L] . . Macrosaldula [= Saldula] scotica (Curt.)[C] L . 60 (Fb.) C L 59 60 Saldula c-album (Fb.) [C] L . 60 Hesperocorixa moesta (Fb.) C L 59 . Saldula orthochila (Fb.) C L 59 . (Fb.) C L 59 60 Saldula pallipes (Fab.) C [L] . . selecta (Fb.) . [L] . . Saldula palustris (Doug.) C L . 60 Sigara stagnalis (Leach) C L 59 60 Saldula pilosella (Thom.) . [L] . . Sigara concinna (Fb.) C L 59 60 Saldula saltatoria (L.) C L 59 60 (Fb.) C L 59 60 SALDINAE SALDINI Sigara limitata (Fb.) C L 59 . Salda littoralis (L.) C L 59 60 (Fb.) C L 59 60 Salda morio Zett. . [L] . . Sigara venusta (D. & S.) C L [59]60 Salda muelleri (Gm.) . L . 60 Sigara dorsalis (Leach) C L 59 60 (Fb.) C L 59 60 TINGIDAE (Fb.) C L 59 60 TINGINAE (Leach) C L [59]60 Acalypta nigrina (Fall.) . L . 60 Sigara scotti (D. & S.) C [L] [59]. Acalypta parvula (Fall.) [C] L 59 60 (Leach) C L 59 60 Agramma laetum (Fall.) . L 59 60 Derephysia foliacea (Fall.) C L . 60 NAUCORINAE Dictyla convergens (H.-S.) Ilyocoris cimicoides (L.) C L 59 60 [= Monanthia humuli (Fab.)] C L . 60 APHELOCHEIRIDAE Dictyonota strichnocera Fb. C L 59 . Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fab.) C . . . Physatocheila dumetorum (H.-S.) C L . 60 NOTONECTIDAE Stephanitis rhododrendri Horv. [C] . . . NOTONECTINAE NOTONECTINI Tingis ampliata (H.-S.) C L . 60 L. C L 59 60 Tingis cardui (L.) C L 59 60 Notonecta maculata Fab. C L 59 . MICROPHYSIDAE Notonecta obliqua Thunb. C L 59 . Loricula elegantula (Bärens.) [C] L 59 60 Notonecta viridis Delcourt Loricula pselaphiformis Curtis C [L] . . [= N. marmorea Fab.] C L 59 60 Myrmedobia [= tenella] exilis (Fall) [C] . . . MIRIDAE Plea minutissima (Füssly) BRYOCORINAE BRYOCORINI [=P. atomaria (Pallas)] C L 59 60 Bryocoris pteridis (Fall.) C L [59] 60 Monalocoris filicis (L.) C L 59 60 HEBRIDAE BRYOCORINAE DICYPHINI HEBRINAE Campyloneura virgula (H.-S.) C L 59 60 Hebrus ruficeps (Thom.) C [L] . . Dicyphus annulatus (Wolff) . L 59 60 Dicyphus globulifer (Fall.) [C] [L] [59]. HYDROMETRINAE Dicyphus constrictus (Boh.) [C] [L] . . J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 7 Dicyphus epilobii Reuter C L 59 60 HALTICINI Dicyphus errans (Wolff) C L [59]60 Halticus saltator (Geoff.) [C] [L] . . Dicyphus stachydis Sahl. C L . 60 Orthocephalus coriaceus (Fab.) [C] [L] . . Dicyphus pallicornis (Fb.) C L [59]60 Orthocephalus saltator (Hahn) C [L] . . Macrolophus pygmaeus (Ram.) ORTHOTYLINAE [= M. nubilis (H.-S.)] C L . . Blepharidopterus angulatus (Fall.) C L 59 . Blepharidopterus [= Orthotylus] Alloeotomus gothicus (Fall.) C L . 60 diaphanus (Kirsch.) [C] [L] . . (A. Costa) C L 59 . Cyllecoris histrionius (L.) C L 59 60 Deraeocoris lutescens (Schill.) C L 59 60 Cyrtorhinus caricis (Fall.) C [L] [59]. Deraeocoris ruber (L.) C L 59 60 Dryophilicoris flavoquadrimaculatus (De Geer) C L 59 60 Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze) C L 59 60 Globiceps fulvicollis Jak. Apolygus [= Lygocoris] lucorum (M.-D.) C L 59 60 [= G. cruciatus Reuter] [C] L 59 60 Apolygus spinolae (M.-D.) C L 59 . Heterocordylus genistae (Scop.) [C] L . 60 alpestris (M.-D.) Heterocordylus tibialis (Hahn) C L 59 . [= C. major (Schilling)] C L 59 60 Heterotoma planicornis (Pall.) Calocoris roseomaculatus (De Geer) . [L] [59]. [= H. meriopterum (Scop.)] C L 59 60 Camptozygum aequale (Vill.) Malacocoris chlorizans (Panz.) [C] [L] . . [= C. pinastri (Fall.)] [C] L 59 . [= Globiceps] dispar (Boh.) C [L] . . Capsodes sulcatus (Fb.) [C] . . . Mecomma ambulans, (Fall.) C L 59 60 ater (L.) C L 59 60 Orthotylus ericetorum (Fall.) C L 59 . Charagochilus gyllenhalii (Fall.) [C] . . . Orthotylus flavosparsus (Sahl.) [C] [L] [59]. Closterotomus [= Calocoris] Orthotylus flavinervis (Kirsch.) C [L] [59]. fulvomaculatus (De Geer) [C] [L] . . Orthotylus marginalis Reut. C L 59 . Closterotomus [= Calocoris] Orthotylus nassatus (Fab.) [C] . . . norvegicus (Gm.) C L 59 . Orthotylus ochrotrichus Fb. C . . . Dichrooscytus rufipennis (Fall.) [C] [L] . . Orthotylus tenellus (Fall.) C [L] . . stysi (Wag.) Orthotylus viridinervis (Kirsch.) [C] . . . [= Calocoris sexguttatus (Fab.)] C L 59 60 Orthotlyus adenocarpi (Perris) C . . . Liocoris tripustulatus (Fab.) C L 59 60 Orthotylus virescens (D. & S.) C [L] [59]. Lygocoris pabulinus (L.) C L 59 60 Orthotylus [= Neomecomma] Lygocoris [= Plesiocoris] rugicollis (Fall.)C L 59 . bilineatus (Fall.) [C] . . . Lygocoris viridis (Fall.) C L 59 60 Platycranus [= Pachylops] Lygus maritimus Wagner . L 59 . bicolor (D. & S.) . L [59]. Lygus rugulipennis Popp. C L 59 60 Pseudoloxops coccineus (M.-D.) . L . 60 Megacoelum infusum (H.-S.) C L . 60 PILOPHORINI striatus (L.) C L . 60 (Kirsch.) . L . 60 Neolygus [= Lygocoris] contaminatus (Fall.) Pilophorus clavatus (L.) [C] [L] [59]. C L 59 60 Pilophorus perplexus D. & S. C [L] . . Neolygus [=Lygocoris] populi Leston C . . . PHYLINAE HALLODAPINI Orthops campestris (L.) C L 59 60 Systellonotus triguttatus (L.) . L 59 . Orthops kalmii (L.) [C] . . . PHYLINAE PHYLINI tunicatus (Fab.) C L 59 60 Amblytylus brevicollis Fb. . [L] . . Phytocoris ulmi (L.) C L 59 60 obsoleta (Fb.) C L . . Phytocoris varipes Boh. C L 59 60 Atractotomus magnicornis (Fall.) C . . . Phytocoris dimidiatus Kirsch. C L 59 . Atractotomus mali (M.-D.) C . . . Phytocoris longipennis Flor. C L 59 60 Chlamydatus pulicarius (Fall.) [C] . . . Phytocoris pini Kirsch. [C] L . 60 Chlamydatus pullus (Reut.) [C] [L] . . Phytocoris populi (L.) C L 59 60 Chlamydatus evanescens (Boh.) [C] . . . Phytocoris reuteri Saunders C L 59 . Compsidolon [= Psallus] Phytocoris tiliae (Fab.) C L 59 60 salicellum (H.-S.) [C] [L] . . Pinalitus [= Orthops] cervinus (H.-S.) C L 59 60 Conostethus griseus D. & S. Pinalitus [= Orthops] rubricatus (Fall.) [C] . . . [= C. friscus Wagner] C [L] . . (Fab.) Conostethus roseus (Fall.) . [L] . . [= Calocoris quadripunctatus (Vill.)] C L 59 60 Europiella artemisiae (Becker) Polymerus palustris (Reut.) C L [59]60 [= Plagiognathus albipennis (Fall)] C [L] . . Polymerus unifasciatus (Fab.) . [L] . . Harpocera thoracica (Fall.) C L 59 60 Polymerus nigrita (Fall.) C L 59 60 decolor (Fall.) C L 59 . Stenotus binotatus (Fab.) C L 59 . Macrotylus paykullii (Fall.) [C] L 59 60 MIRINAE STENODEMINI Megalocoleus molliculus (Fall.) C . . . Leptopterna dolabrata (L.) C L 59 60 Monosynamma sabulicola (Wagn.) [C] L 59 60 Leptopterna ferrugata (Fall.) C L 59 . Oncotylus viridiflavus (Goeze) C . . . Megaloceraea recticornis (Geoff.) C . . Phoenicocoris [= Psallus] obscurellus (Fall.) Notostira elongata (Geoff.) C L 59 . C [L] [59]. Pithanus maerkelii (H.-S.) C L 59 60 Phylus coryli (L.) C L . 60 Stenodema calcarata (Fall.) C L 59 60 Phylus melanocephalus (L.) C . . . Stenodema holsata (Fab.) C L 59 . Phylus palliceps Fb. C L . 60 Stenodema laevigata (L.) C L 59 60 Plagiognathus arbustorum (Fab.) C L 59 60 Teratocoris antennatus (Boh.) [C] . . . Plagiognathus chrysanthemi (Wolff) C L 59 . Teratocoris saundersi D.& S. [C] [L] . . Plesiodema pinetella (Zett.) C [L] [59]. Teratocoris viridis D.& S. [C] [L] . . Psallus betuleti (Fall.) C L [59] 60 Trigonotylus psammaecolor Reut. C L 59 . Psallus perrisi (M & R.) C . . . Trigonotylus ruficornis (Geoff.) C L 59 60 Psallus variabilis (Fall.) [C] . . . Psallus wagneri Oss. C . . .

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 8 Psallus ambiguus (Fall.) C L 59 60 LYGAEIDAE Psallus quercus (Kirsch.) [C] . . . ORSILLINAE NYSIINI Psallus confusus Rieg. Nysius ericae (Sch.) C . . . [= P. diminutus Kirsch.] [C] [L] . . Nysius thymi (Wolff) [C] L [59] 60 Psallus falleni Reut. C L 59 . ISCHNORHYNCHINAE Psallus flavellus Stichel C . . . Kleidocerys ericae [= truncatulus] (Horv.)C L 59 60 Psallus haematodes (Gmelin) Kleidocerys resedae (Panz.) C L 59 60 [= P. roseus (Fab.)] C L 59 60 CYMINAE CYMINI Psallus lepidus (Fb.) [C] . . . Cymus claviculus (Fall.) C L 59 . Psallus mollis (M. & R.) Cymus glandicolor Hahn C L 59 60 [= P. masseei Woodroffe] C . . . Cymus melanocephalus Fb. C . . . Psallus salicis (Kirsch.) BLISSINAE [= P. alnicola D. & S.] C [L] . . Ischnodemus sabuleti (Fall.) C L 59 60 Psallus varians (H.-S.) C L [59] 60 ARTHENEINAE ARTHENEINI Salicarus [= Sthenarus] roseri (H.-S.) . [L] . . Chilacis typhae (Perr.) C L 59 60 Sthenarus rotermundi (Scholtz) . [L] [59]. HETEROGASTRINAE Tinicephalus hortulanus (M.-D.) . [L] . . Heterogaster urticae (Fab.) C L 59 60 Tytthus pubescens (Knight) [= T. geminus (Flor)] [C] . . . brunneus (Sahl.) C L 59 60 Tytthus pygmaeus (Zett.) C L 59 . Drymus ryeii D. & S. . L . 60 NABIDAE Drymus sylvaticus (Fab.) C L 59 60 PROSTEMMATINAE PROSTEMMATINI Gastrodes grossipes (De Geer) C L 59 60 Prostemma guttula (Fab.) . [L] . . Lamproplax picea (Flor) C L . 60 NABINAE NABINI Scolopostethus affinis (Schill.) C L 59 60 Himacerus [= Stalia] major (Costa) C L 59 60 Scolopostethus decoratus (Hahn) C L 59 60 Himaceris mirmicoides (Costa) [C] . . . Scolopostethus grandis Horv. C . . . Himaceris apterus (Fab.) . L . 60 Scolopostethus thomsoni Reut. C L 59 60 Nabis [= Dolichonabis] limbatus Dahl. C L 59 60 Taphropeltus contractus (H.-S.) [C] [L] . . Nabis flavomarginatus Scholtz C L 59 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE GONIANOTINI Nabis [= Dolichonabis] lineatus Dahl C . . . Macrodema microptera (Curt.) C L . 60 Nabis ericetorum Scholtz C L 59 60 Trapezonotus arenarius (L.). C L 59 60 Nabis ferus (L.) C L 59 60 Trapezonotus desertus Seid. C L 59 60 Nabis rugosus (L.) C L 59 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE MEGALONOTINI ANTHOCORIDAE Megalonotus chiragra (Fab.) C L 59 60 ANTHOCORINAE ANTHOCORINI Megalonotus dilatatus (H.-S.) [C] . . . Reuter C L . 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE Acompocoris pygmaeus (Fall.) C [L] [59]. fracticollis (Schill.) C . . . Anthocoris confusus Reut. C L 59 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE PLINTHISINI Anthocoris gallarumulmi (De Geer) [C] [L] . . Plinthisus brevipennis (Lat.) [C] L 59 60 Anthocoris nemoralis (Fab.) C L 59 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE Anthocoris nemorum (L.) C L 59 60 Graptopeltus lynceus (Fab.) . L 59 60 Anthocoris sarothamni D. & S. [C] . . . Peritrechus geniculatus (Hahn) C L 59 . Elatophilus nigricornis (Zett.) . L . 60 Peritrechus lundii (Gm.) [C] L [59]60 Temnostethus gracilis Horv. . L . 60 RHYPAROCHROMINAE STYGNOCORINI Temnostethus pusillus (H.-S.) [C] . . . Acompus pallipes (H.-S.) . [L] . . Tetraphleps bicuspis (H.-S.) C . . . fuligineus (Geoff.) C L 59 60 ANTHOCORINAE ORIINI Stygnocoris rusticus (Fall.) C L 59 . Orius majusculus (Reut.) C [L] [59]. Stygnocoris sabulosus (Schill.) Orius vicinus (Ribaut) [C] . . . [= S. pedestris (Fall.)] C L 59 60 Orius niger (Wolff) [C] . . . PIESMATIDAE LYCTOCORINAE DUFOURIELLINI Piesma maculatum (Lap.) C . . . Dufouriellus ater (Dufour) C . . . Parapiesma [=Piesma] quadratum (Fb.)C L . 60 LYCTOCORINAE LYCTOCORINI BERYTIDAE Lyctocoris campestris (Fab.) [C] L 59 . BERYTINAE BERYTINI LYCTOCORINAE XYLOCORINI Neides tipularius (L.) . L 59 60 Xylocoris galactinus (Fb.) [C] L 59 . BERYTINAE BERYTININI Xylocoris cursitans (Fall.) [C] [L] . . Berytinus minor (H.-S.) C L 59 60 LYCTOCORINAE XYLOCORINI Berytinus montivagus (M.-D.) . L . 60 Buchananiella continua (F.B. White) C . . . Berytinus crassipes (H.-S.) . [L] [59]. GAMPSOCORINAE GAMPSOCORINI CIMICINAE Gampsocoris punctipes (Germ.) C L 59 60 Cimex lectularius L. [C] [L] . . STENOCEPHALIDAE Dicranocephalus agilis (Scop.) . [L] [59]. EMESINAE PLOIARIOLINI COREIDAE Empicoris culiciformis (De Geer) C [L] . . COREINAE Empicoris vagabundus (L.) C L . 60 Leptoglossus occidentalis (Heid.) C L . 60 REDUVIINAE PSEUDOPHLOINAE Reduvius personatus (L.) C [L] [59 ]. Coriomeris denticulatus (Scop.) C L . 60 HARPACTORINAE HARPACTORINI Coranus subapterus (De Geer) C L 59 . Alydus calcaratus (L.) C . . . Pentatomorpha RHOPALIDAE ARADIDAE RHOPALINAE RHOPALINI ARADINAE Corizus hyoscyami (L.) [C] L 59 . Aradus depressus (Fab.) [C] L 59 . Liorhyssus hyalinus (Fab.) C . . . Rhopalus [= Aeschymtelus]

J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc., 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010) 9 maculatus (Fb.) [C] . . . Palomena prasina (L.) C L 59 60 Rhopalus subrufus (Gm.) . L . 60 Eysarcoris venustissimus (Schrank) CHOROSOMATINI [= E. fabricii (Kirkaldy)] C . . . Chorosoma schillingi (Schum.) C L 59 60 Pentatoma rufipes (L.) C L 59 60 Myrmus miriformis (Fall.) C L 59 60 lituratus (Fab.) C L 59 60 SEHIRINAE ASOPOINAE Tritomegas [=Sehirus] bicolor (L.) C . . . Picromerus bidens (L.) C L 59 60 Sehirus luctuosus (M. & R.) . [L] [59] Pitedia juniperina (L.) . [L] [59]. Rhacognathus punctatus (L.) C L 59 60 THYREOCORINAE Troilus luridus (Fab.) C L 59 60 Thyreocoris scarabaeoides (L.) . [L] [59]. Zicrona caerulea (L.) C L 59 60 EURYGASTRINAE ACANTHOSOMATINAE Odontoscelis fuliginosa (L.) [C] . . . Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (L.) C L 59 60 PENTATOMIDAE Elasmostethus [= Cyphostethus] PENTATOMINI interstinctus (L.) C L 59 60 Aelia acuminata (L.) C L 59 60 Elasmostethus tristriatus (Fab.) C L 59 60 Dolycoris baccarum (L.) C L . 60 Elasmucha grisea (L.) C L 59 60

Future recording Please continue to send your records to me. I will summarise all new county, vice county and other notable records as annual reports in this journal. These are exciting times for recording true bugs and there is still much to learn about our regional fauna - particularly in VC60.

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Journal of the Lancashire & Cheshire Volumes 133 & 134 Entomological Society Sessions 2009 & 2010 Obituaries 2 Charles Ian Rutherford 1919 - 2008 3 Neil Arthur Robinson 1935 - 2008 Articles 4 Recent Hemiptera records from Cheshire A.J. Ramsay 8 Distribution and abundance of the Vernal Mining Bee Colletes cunicularius (L.) in Crosby, Hall Road and Hightown sand-dunes, Merseyside P.H. Smith 20 British entomology collections of the Manchester Museum D. Logunov 51 First Lancashire and Cheshire records of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with revised county checklists S. Judd Notes 6 An abundance of caddis flies (Trichoptera) at Southport I.D. Wallace 7 Notes on invertebrates at Ynyslas NNR Cardiganshire (VC46 SN69) in March 2009 P.F. Whitehead 16 The first record of Sepedophilus bipunctatus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Cheshire (VC58) D.A. Stenhouse & R.S. Atherton 17 Notes on invertebrates at Minffordd, Merionethshire (VC48) in March 2009 P.F. Whitehead 18 Lesser Earwig Labia minor (L.) (Dermaptera) new to VC60 J. Newton 19 A first Wirral record of Oak Bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum (De Geer) H. Davies 45 A record of the longhorn Ergates faber (L.) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Lancashire D.A. Stenhouse 46 Captive rearing of the Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Noctua fimbriata (Schreber) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) G. Wotherspoon 47 Aglossa pinguinalis (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from a Wirral garden H. Davies 47 The first North Wales record of the wasp Cerceris rybyensis (L.) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) J.B. Formstone 48 First records of the hoverfly Volucella zonaria (Poda) (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Cheshire R. Waight 49 A further record of the Hornet Vespa crabro L. in Cheshire L. Hall 107 Comment on the rarity of the Mud Snail Omphiscola glabra (Müller) (Lymnaeidae) J. Bratton 107 Additional records of the Kentish Snail Monacha cantiana (Montague) C. Felton Recorder reports 62 Odonata in Lancashire and North Merseyside in 2008 S. White 63 Cheshire Odonata report for 2009 D. Kitching 64 2008 Cheshire microlepidoptera report S. Hind 66 2009 Cheshire microlepidoptera report S. Hind 68 2008 Lancashire macrolepidoptera report C. Darbyshire 71 2009 Lancashire macrolepidoptera report S. Palmer 79 2008 Lancashire migrant Lepidoptera report C. Darbyshire 80 2009 Lancashire migrant Lepidoptera report G. Jones 81 2008 Lancashire microlepidoptera report S. Palmer 84 2009 Lancashire microlepidoptera report S. Palmer 88 Cheshire and Wirral butterfly report for 2009 B.T. Shaw 89 Lancashire & Cheshire Coleoptera report for 2009 D. Stenhouse 93 Spider report for Lancashire for 2008 and 2009 J. Newton 96 Cheshire (VC58) spider report for 2008 and 2009 J. McGaw 97 A review of significant entomological records (other than Lepidoptera) for North Wales (VC47 to 52) in 2008 M.A Howe, E.A. Howe & A. Brandon 103 A review of significant entomological records (other than Lepidoptera) for North Wales (VC47 to 52) in 2009 M.A Howe, E.A. Howe & A. Brandon Proceedings etc. 1 Editorial 108 Indoor meetings notes, observations and exhibits 2009 & 2010