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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Haplopodoiulus spathifer

Range & Status

Status: Insufficiently known. Possibly introduced with plants. An introduced species which occurs in SW France and NW Spain; this was recorded from Kew in 1986. It has been found also at Bedgebury and Wakehurst Place to which it is likely to have been spread from Kew. There is now a record from Trelissick (Cornwall).

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.