A new record of Metriocnemus (Inermipupa) carmencitabertarum (Orthocladiinae) from England

Abstract

Metriocnemus (Inermipupa) carmencitabertarum Langton and Cobo, 1997 was described from specimens collected by Fernando Cobo in 1989 and 1994 in Spain and Portugal (Langton and Cobo, 1997) and was subsequently reported from the Azorean islands of Terceira (Murray et al., 2004) and Santa Maria (Ramos et al. 2010). On mainland Europe, north of the Iberian Peninsula, the species was reported from the Netherlands by Kuper et al. (2012) and Kuper (2015). It is cited as being present in Estonia and Poland in Fauna Europaea, (Spies and Sæther, 2013) but these records are unconfirmed. The species was first reported in the British Isles from Somerset, England by Langton and Wilson (2012) and from County Meath in Ireland by Murray (2012). That record from England is thus far unique. However, M. carmencitabertarum is now known from nine locations in Ireland, eight, including one in Northern Ireland cited in Murray et al. (2014) and a ninth location recently reported by Murray (2016).