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NOTES ON THE SUFFOLK LIST OF COLEOPTERA: 16 FIFTEEN FURTHER SPECIES NEW TO THE LIST TOGETHER WITH SOME RECENT INTERESTING RECORDS DAVID R. NASH This paper continues my up-dating of the Suffolk list of coleoptera and details 14 species new to the county (asterisked) together with some other significant recent records. Records are allocated to vice-county and National Grid references are provided, with those assigned by me to old records being placed in square brackets. Records not assigned to a recorder are my own. Nomenclature follows Duff (2012). The national status for most scarce and threatened species is as given by Hyman in his National Review (1992) although many designations provided there are in need of revision. The status for water beetles follows Foster (2010) who uses the ICUN Red List Categories and Criteria 2001, version 3.1. CARABIDAE Carabus monilis Fabricius. Originally Nationally Scarce B, now upgraded; Suffolk Habitat Action Plan C. monilis is a large carabid associated with a variety of habitats from upland heaths to cultivated land, chiefly on well-draining soils. Until around the middle of the last century it was considered to be quite generally distributed and locally often not uncommon. In Suffolk, the species appears to have always been rather rare. Morley (1899) gives “Eye District VC25 [TM17]. (Tyrer).– Bury District VC26 [TL86]. (Tuck).– Ipswich, uncommon” and in his annotated copy he adds “Monk Soham [TM2065], sometimes in house at light e.g. 7. vi. 1930”. In Morley’s collection there is a W. H. Tuck specimen which bears the data “v. [19]04, Bury” as well as C. G. Doughty material labelled “12. v. [19] 30, Gorleston” VC25 [TG50]. The Carabid Recording Scheme has the following records on its database: 1903, Aldringham VC25 [TM46]. Record supplied by A. A. Allen. 1927, Sudbury VC26 [TL84] Doncaster Museum. No collector’s name given but I suspect Philip Harwood from the date and locality. Harwood frequently omitted his name when distributing duplicates. 6. vii. 1946, Bury St Edmunds VC26 (TL8565),O. Gilbert. Until this year, the last known Suffolk record was that of Clifford Barham who had found a specimen squashed on a pavement in Ipswich VC25 (TM1845) on 12th August 1956. It was very pleasing, therefore, to receive from Matt Berry, a photo of one which he came across in Chantry Park, Ipswich (TM135440) (See Cover). This record was closely followed by a photo from Chris Woolley of another, still alive, from a pitfall trap operated between 19th–26th April, 2012 which had been set in an area of ruderal vegetation south of the old Fison’s fertiliser plant in Paper Mill Lane, Bramford adjacent to the railway line (TM126471). Mark Telfer recently upgraded the status of this species which now appears to be the most declined of all British carabids (see Suffolk HAP) although, since publishing this upgrade, he has been receiving 2-3 records
Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 48 (2012)