Trachys troglodytes Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Radnorshire

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by  K N A Alexander

84 BR. J. ENT. NAT. HIST.,4: 1991
Stowe Park is obviously an important site for beetles in the context of
Buckinghamshire. The present landscape garden was developed on the site of a
medievaldeerpark, andtherich beetle faunademonstratesthat there has beengood
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continuityofold treesanddeadwoodthroughitslonghistory. Keith N. A. Alexander,
National Trust, Spitalgate Lane, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2DE.
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TrachystroglodytesGyllenhal (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Radnorshire. Ofthe
Welsh counties, so far only Cardigan (A. P. Fov^'les, pers. comm.) and Anglesey
(S. J. Grove, pers. comm.) have been shown to have Trachys troglodytes. I was
therefore pleased to spot the tell-tale egg-spot and leaf-mine on a leaf of Succisa
pratensisMoench, devils-bit scabious, inacolourslidetaken by J. C. E. Turner and
shown to me by P. Jackson. The slide was taken in an area of Molinia/Cirsium
dissectum (L.) fen meadow at Rhos Dwfnant SSSI in the old county ofRadnor (SO
021601) on 14.vi.1988.—Keith N. A. Alexander, 22 Cecily Hill, Cirencester, Glos.
GL7 2EF.
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Somenomenclatural changestoBritishTortricidae(Lepidoptera). Fouryearsago
Razowski (1987) published a catalogue of the genera of Palaearctic Chlidanotinae
and Tortricinae (Tortricidae) in which he introduced a number ofnew synonymies.
Asaconsequencethegenericcombinations ofsix speciesofBritish Tortricidae were
affected, but thesechangeshavenotyetbeennotedintheBritish literature. TheField
guideto thesmallerBritishLepidoptera(Emmet, 1988), themostrecentlistofBritish
Microlepidoptera, should be amended as follows.
Species transferred from Trachysmia:
Species no. 921, Phtheochroa inopiana (Haw.)
922, Phtheochroa schreibersiana (Frol.)
923, Phtheochroa sodaliana (Haw.)
Species transferred from Croesia:
Species no. 1035, Acleris bergmanniana (L.)
1036, Aclerisforsskaleana (L.)
1037, Acleris holmiana (L.)
K. R. Tuck, EntomologyDepartment, TheNaturalHistoryMuseum, Cromwell Road,
London SW7 5BD.
References
Emmet,A.M.(ed.) 19SS.AfieldguidetothesmallerBritishLepidoptera{secondedn),pp. 1-288.
British Entomological & Natural History Society, London.
Razowski, J. 1987. ThegeneraofTortricidae(Lepidoptera). PartI: PalaearcticChlidanotinae
and Tortricinae. Acta Zool. Cracov. 30: 141-355.
Pammene suspectana (Zeller) in Huntingdonshire.—At the beginning of 1990 I
decided to trap some ofthe woods in my home county of Huntingdonshire (VC31)
for which no previous records ofthe moth fauna could be found, one ofthese was
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