Lepiseodina latipennis - Lepiseodina latipennis
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Species Description
A new or previously unrecognised species to the British Isles. Habitat includes: Mature trees with rot holes or crevices such as at the base, around the buttress roots. Previously it belonged to the genera Clogmia and Telmatoscopus but now to Lepiseodina. Until recently only one species was recognised in the British Isles - Lepiseodina rothschildii but that is amply different from this species which has a black streak running from the head to the end of the thorax whereas rothschildii has a grey-white head and a black streak running from left to right across the thorax. The dark grey on the wings also extends right to the tip of the frilled border (not so in L. rothschildii which is tipped the same colour as the frilled border). There is only one other record from Bristol (2019) but it has also been recorded from just outside the region between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon (2022)
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GBIF (as Telmatoscopus latipennis)