Globiceps flavomaculatus

Range & Status

Old records cover a wide area of southern Britain, but its past status is difficult to ascertain due to taxonomic confusion. Very local and apparently increasingly scarce.

Regional Distribution

Discovered by R.T. Bannister at Kennack Sands in 1963 and found at Cape Cornwall by John Widgery in 2006.

Habitat & Ecology

Associated with damp places and the edges of wetlands, particularly where there is luxuriant vegetation growth and where there are low shrubs. Eggs are laid in cracks in the older wood of trees and shrubs. It is mainly a predator, but occasionally feeds on flowers and unripe fruits, particularly of Fabaceae.

Threats

Loss of transitional woody growth/low herbaceous wetland vegetation, e.g. through drainage and conversion to productive pasture, abandonment and successional change to denser scrub.

Conservation

Maintenance of rough pastures is needed.