Species List 2008

Species recorded at Holtspur Bank Nature Reserve.

As of December 2008

Total species count = 491

 

 

Fungi

Lichens

Trees and shrubs

39

6

34

Agaricus placomyces

Cladonia coniocraea

Apple

Amethyst deceiver

Evernia prunastri

Ash

Artist’s bracket

Lecanora conizoides

Beech

Beef steak

Lepraria incana

Blackthorn

Birch polypore

Parmelia saxatilis

Bramble

Blushing bracket

Parmelia sulcata

Buckthorn

Candle snuff

 

Crab apple

Common funnel cap

Liverworts

Dog rose

Common ink cap

5

Dogwood

Coral spot

Cephalozia bicuspidata

Elderberry

Death cap

Frullania dilitata

Field maple

Dogwood spot

Lophocolea bidentata

Goat willow

Exidia thuretiana

Metzgeria furcata

Gorse

Field mushroom

Radula complanata

Guelder rose

Greasy shank

 

Hawthorn

Green wood cup

Mosses

Hazel

Hygrocybe persistens

25

Holly

Hygrocybe conica

Amblystegium serpens

Honeysuckle

Hygrocybe langei

Barbula unguiculata

Hornbeam

Hymenochaete corrugata

Barbula convoluta

Ivy

Jelly ear (Jew’s ear)

Brachythecium rutabulum

Norway maple

King Alfred’s cakes

Bryum capillare

Oak

Lilac bell cap

Cryphaea heteromalla

Old man's beard

Many-zoned polypore

Dicranella varia

Red currant

Mycena filopes

Dicranella heteromalla

Rowan

Mycena leucogala

Eurhyncium praelongum

Silver birch

Oak milk cap

Fissidens taxifolius

Spindle tree

Phellinus ferruginosus

Funaria hygrometrica

Spurge laurel

Red-cracked bolete

Homalothecium lutescens

Sycamore

Shaggy parasol

Hypnum cupressiforme

Wayfaring tree

Smooth earthball

Hypnum resupinatum

Whitebeam

Spotted tough shank

Mnium hornum

Wild cherry

Stink horn

Orthotricum affine

Wild plum

Sulphur tuft

Orthotricum diaphanum

Wild Privet

Tremella foliacea

Plagiomnium undulatum

 

Tremella mesenterica

Plagiothecium nemorale

Flowering herbs

Tricholoma sulphureum

Pagiothecium succulentum

134

White inocybe

Peudoscleropodium purum

Agrimony

White spindles

Rhynchostegium confertum

Bird's foot trefoil

 

Rhytidadelphus squarrosus

Black bryony

Ferns

Tetraphis pellucida

Black knapweed

3

Zygodon viridissimus

Black medick

Bracken

 

Bladder campion

Broad buckler fern

Conifers

Bugle

Male fern

2

Bulbous buttercup

 

Larch

Burnet saxifrage

 

Yew

Bush vetch

 

 

Carline thistle

 

 

Charlock

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Cleavers

Lesser burdock

Wild carrot

Cock's-foot grass

Lesser celandine

Wild mignonette

Common centaury

Lily of the valley

Wild parsnip

Common fumitory

Marjoram

Wild strawberry

Common milkwort

Meadow buttercup

Wood anemone

Common ragwort

Meadow vetchling

Wood avens

Common spotted-orchid

Mint

Wood medic

Common toadflax

Mugwort

Wood millet

Common vetch

Narcissus

Wood spurge

Common violet

Narrow-leaved meadow-grass

Woodruff

Coral root (Coral-wort)

Narrow-lipped helleborine

Woody nightshade

Couch grass

Nettle

Yarrow

Cow parsley

Nipplewort

Yellow archangel

Cowslip

Ox-eye daisy

Yellow-wort

Creeping buttercup

Oxford ragwort

 

Creeping soft-grass

Perennial sow-thistle

Slugs and snails

Creeping thistle

Perforate St. John's wort

5

Cuckoo pint

Periwinkle

Dark-lipped banded snail

Cypress spurge

Prickly sow-thistle

Garden snail

Dandelion

Primrose

Plaited door snail

Dark mullein

Purging flax

Round-mouthed snail

Dog's mercury

Pyramidal orchid

White-lipped banded snail

Drooping brome

Quaking grass

 

Early-purple orchid

Red bartsia

Butterflies

Enchanter's nightshade

Red clover

29

False oat-grass

Ribwort plantain

Brimstone

Fennel

Rose-bay willow-herb

Brown argus

Field bindweed

Rough hawkbit

Clouded yellow

Field for-get-me-not

Rough meadow-grass

Comma

Field poppy

Salad burnet

Common blue

Field scabious

Sanicle

Dark-green fritillary

Garden crocus

Scarlet pimpernel

Dingy skipper

Garlic mustard

Selfheal

Essex skipper

Germander speedwell

Shepherd's purse

Large skipper

Glaucous sedge

Slender false brome

Large white

Goat's beard

Smooth meadow-grass

Gatekeeper

Golden oat-grass

Snowdrop

Green hairstreak

Goldilocks buttercup

Snowdrop, double flowered

Green-vein white

Great willow-herb

Solomon's seal

Holly blue

Greater knapweed

Spanish bluebell

Marbled white

Ground ivy

Spear thistle

Meadow brown

Hairy violet

Spring sedge

Orange tip

Harebell

Stemless thistle

Painted lady

Hawkweed

Timothy grass

Peacock

Hawkweed oxtongue

Twayblade

Purple hairstreak

Hedge bedstraw

Upright brome

Small skipper

Hedge bindweed

Upright hedge-parsley

Small white

Hedge mustard

Wall barley

Small tortoiseshell

Hemlock

Wall lettuce

Red admiral

Herb Robert

White bryony

Ringlet

Hog weed

White campion

Small blue

Kidney vetch

White dead-nettle

Small copper

Lady's bedstraw

White helleborine

Small heath

Large thyme

Wild basil

Speckled wood

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Moths

Ghost swift

Scalloped oak

149

Gothic

Scarce footman

Angle shades

Green carpet

Scorched carpet

Barred hook-tip

Green pug

Setaceous Hebrew character

Barred straw

Grey arches

Shaded broad bar

Barred yellow

Grey dagger

Shaded pug

Beautiful hook tip

Grey pug

Shears

Bird’s wing

Heart and club

Short cloaked

Blood vein

Heart and dart

Shuttle shaped dart

Bordered pug

Herald

Silver ground carpet

Bordered sallow

Ingrailed clay

Silver-Y

Brimstone

Iron prominent

Single dotted wave

Brindled white spot

July highflyer

Six-spot burnet

Broad–barred white

Knot grass

Slender brindle

Broad bordered yellow underwing

Larch pug

Small blood-vein

Broken-barred carpet

Large nutmeg

Small dotted buff

Brown rustic

Large yellow underwing

Small emerald

Brown scallop

Leopard moth

Small fan footed wave

Brown-line bright-eye

Lesser broad bordered yellow underwing

Small fan-foot

Buff arches

Lesser common rustic

Small phoenix

Burnished brass

Lesser yellow underwing

Small rivulet

Campion

Lesser-spotted underwing

Small square-spot

Canary shouldered thorn

Light arches

Small waved umber

Chinese character

Light brocade

Smoky wainscot

Cloaked minor

Light emerald

Square spot rustic

Clouded border

Lime hawk

Straw underwing

Clouded bordered brindle

Lime-speck pug

Striped lychnis

Clouded brindle

Lobster

Swallow-tailed

Clouded silver

Lunar-spotted pinion

Tawny speckled pug

Common carpet

Magpie moth

The clay

Common emerald

Maple pug

The fern

Common footman

Marbled beauty

The flame

Common marbled carpet

Marbled minor

The shark

Common rustic

Mottled beauty

The snout

Common wainscot

Mottled rustic

The spectacle

Common white wave

Nutmeg

Turnip

Copper underwing

Nut-tree tussock

Waved umber

Coxcomb prominent

Oak hook tip

White spotted pug

Dark arches

Oak-tree pug

Willow beauty

Dark dagger

Pale mottled willow

Wormwood

Dark umber

Pale prominent

Wormwood pug

Dingy shears

Peach blossom

 

Dot moth

Pebble hook tip

Beetles

Double square spot

Pebble prominent

4

Double striped pug

Peppered moth

Glow-worm

Dun-bar

Phoenix

Longhorn beetle

Dwarf pug

Pine hawk

Seven-spot ladybird

Early thorn

Plain golden-Y

Sixteen-spot ladybird

Elephant hawk

Poplar grey

 

Engrailed

Poplar hawk

Crickets & grasshoppers

Fan-foot

Pretty chalk carpet

3

Flame shoulder

Red twin-spot carpet

Common field grasshopper

Flounced rustic

Riband wave

Roesel's bush cricket

Foxglove pug

Ruby tiger

Speckled bush cricket

Garden carpet

Sandy carpet

 

 

 

 

Bugs

Plant galls

 

1

15

 

Hawthorn shield bug

Cause: gall mites

 

 

11

 

Reptiles

Blackthorn nail gall

 

2

Gtr. knapweed leaf pock-gall

 

Common lizard

Hazel big bud gall

 

Slow-worm

Hawthorn leaf-edge curl gall

 

 

Marjoram hairy top gall

 

Birds

Pin gall of field maple

 

27

Pin gall of Sycamore

 

Blackbird

Pouch gall of field maple

 

Blackcap

Pouch gall of wayfaring tree

 

Blue tit

Salad burnet felt-gall

 

Buzzard

 

 

Carrion crow

Cause: jumping plant lice

 

Chaffinch

1

 

Chiffchaff

Buckthorn thick leaf gall

 

Cuckoo

 

 

Dunnock

Cause: gall wasps

 

Fieldfare

4

 

Garden warbler

Common spangle gall of oak

 

Great spotted woodpecker

Oak oyster gall

 

Great tit

Oak apple gall

 

Green woodpecker

Robin's pin cushion

 

Jay

 

 

Kestrel

 Mammals

 

Little owl

 8

 

Long-tailed tit

 Bank vole

 

Magpie

 Edible dormouse

 

Nut hatch

 Fox

 

Red kite

 Grey squirrel

 

Redwing

 Hazel dormouse

 

Robin

 Muntjac deer

 

Song thrush

 Pipistrelle bat

 

Willow warbler

 Rabbit

 

Wood pigeon

 

 

Wren