The Golden-haired Longhorn Beetle (Leptura aurulenta) was recorded at Parke on the 15th August during an invertebrate training day I was running for a number of National Trust wardens. Two individuals were seen within 15 minutes of each other.
The Golden-haired Longhorn Beetle is a Nationally Scarce A category species (i.e. lives in fewer than 30 10km squares) which lives in broad-leaved woods and parklands. It is a local species restricted to southern parts of Cornwall and Devon and Hampshire and West Sussex.
The distribution map for the species can be viewed on the National Biodiversity Network - press here.
More details on longhorn beetles can be found in two recent issues of British Wildlife magazine. Identifacation - longhorn beetles: part 1 and 2. BW (2007) vol 18 pp406-14 & BW (2007) vol 19 pp35-43.
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