BUGS & HOPPERS OF SURREY –
BUGS & HOPPERS
Of SURREY
With publication anticipated for Autum 2015, the Bugs & Hoppers of Surrey is a twenty year project finally coming to fruition. Any additional records and information is most welcome for inclusion in the atlas. Remember, If I don’t know it is out there it wont get in!!
The book will follow existing atlas format. All species mapped to 2km.
I would like to include Psylloidea but coverage is inferior to true bugs and hoppers.
Aquatic bugs and Shield Bugs and allies have already been covered in the Surrey Atlas series, but a lot as changed so updated maps and accounts will be included.
True Bugs: number of species recorded per hectad
Hoppers number of species recorded per hectad
SELECTED MAPS
Velia capraiTamanini, 1947 PLATE x Water Cricket
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BUGS & HOPPERS OF SURREY –
Widespread on and at edge of flowing water and on lakes and occasionaly on ponds an pools remote from streams, usually nocturnal in open situations but regularly active by day in shady backwaters of streams.
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BUGS & HOPPERS OF SURREY –
Chartoscirta cincta(Herrich-Schäffer, 1841)
Widespread amongst marginal vegetation and on litter around ponds, marshes, reedbeds.
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BUGS & HOPPERS OF SURREY –
Acalypta parvula(Fallén, 1807)
Widespread in moss in dry situations
Phyluscoryli (Linnaeus, 1758) Pale hazel plantbug
Widespread and locally abundant on Hazel
Phylus melanocephalus(Linnaeus, 1758)
Widespread on oak adult from mid may onwards into June.
Salicarus roseri(Herrich-Schäffer, 1838)
Local on sallows and willows, frequent alongside the Thames and Lower Wey.
Sthenarus rotermundi (Scholtz, 1847)
This handsome little bug occurs widely on white and grey poplars.
Miris striatus(Linnaeus, 1758) PLATE xx
Widespread on oaks, adult from mid May, through June.
Calocoris striatellus (Fabricius, 1794) Plate xx Common oak Capsid
(= quadripunctatus (Villiers))
Common on oaks countywide, adult from mid may- July. Comes to light
Calocoris stysiWagner, 1968 PLATE xx Nettle capsid
Locally frequent on nettles, adults also frequent at flowers of other plants including
Notostira elongata(Geoffroy, 1785) PLATE xx
Widespread and abundant in rough grassland. Two generations occur each year, only females (which mated the previous autumn) overwinter, these lay eggs which develop through april-june. Adults appear in mid-late may, there prodgeny becoming adult in late summer. The males of this second generation die off after mating. The females of the two generations differ in size and coloration.
Himacerus (=Aptus) mirmicoides (O.Costa, 1834) Ant Damsel-Bug
Widespread and common in most habitats including gardens. The nymphs mimic and can often be found in proximity to foraging ants. Comes to light
Orius niger (Wolff, 1811)
Localy common on heathland on heathers, also taken on other plants in ruderal areas.
Ischnodemus sabuleti(Fallén, 1807) European chinchbug
This smelly elongate bug occurs, often in vast numbers on emergent vegetation mainly in wet areas on marsh plants including Flote grass, Yellow Flag, but in recent years it as become frequent in rough dry grassland such as motorway verges.Much increased in late 20th C. Groves gives records for only 4 sites. In VCH only reported from Merton!
Heterogaster urticae(Fabricius, 1775) Nettle groundbug
Widespread on nettles, (also reported on Eleagnus) over-wintering under bark and in log stacks etc.
Rhyparachromus pini (Linnaeus, 1758) PLATE xx
Nationally Scarce B
Locally common in heathy districts, and in pine woodland on litter. Its also occurs on chalk downland.
HOPPERS
Philaenus spumarius (Linnaeus, 1758) Common meadow spittlebug
Common and widespread, feeding on a wide variety of plants. It occurs on garden plants, where the distinctive ‘cuckoo -spit’ (foamy coated larvae) gave rise to a bizare legend about decreptitating Cuckoos. The adults come in a grat variety of colour forms.
Ulopa reticulata(Fabricius, 1794) Heather hopper
This small disctinctive little hopper is often frequent under heather and ling on heaths.
Iassus lanio (Linnaeus, 1761)
Widespread and abundant on oak trees countywide, frequent at mv light.
Iassus scutellaris (Fieber, 1868)
Nationally Scarce
Local on elm especially in open hedges.
Aphrodes makarovi Zakhvatkin, 1948 PLATE xx
A common polyphagous ground dwelling species, found in a wide variety of habitats including gardens and on cultivated land including arable.
Balclutha punctata (Fabricius, 1775)
Widespread and common amongst herbage in rides, and margins of woods. Also occurs on trees.
Ribautiana ulmi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Widespread and often abundant on elm,
Zygina flammigera (Geoffroy, 1785)
Widespread and frequent on a wide variety of trees and bushes, often over-wintering on conifers, and active in warm weather even in mid winter
Ditropis (Criomorphus) pteridis (Spinola, 1839) Bracken hopper
Widespread and frequent on bracken.
ISSIDAE
Issus coleoptratus (Fabricius, 1781) Ivy froghopper
Widespread, often on ivy on walls and trees, also on holly. Overwinters as a nymph..This species appears to have increased dramatically in later part of 20th Century as Coulson rarely recorded it.
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