| The tiny
Andromeda Lacebug is usually found on the garden shrubs Pieris
and Rhododendron and although known from the UK
since 1998, there are still few records of this Japanese
species. Originally thought to have been recorded as new
to Nottinghamshire in August 2016, when a single specimen
was swept from marginal vegetation at Attenborough
NR (Sexton, T.). This record seems to have been
beaten though, as we recently received a large number of
invertebrate records from the Nottingham Biological and
Geological Record Centre, among which was a record
of Stephanitis
takeyai from New Balderton, Newark on July 3rd
2015. The most recent
county records
are from Market Warsop in August 2017 (Pendleton, T.A.
and Pendleton, D.T.) Attenborough village (Sexton, T.) in September 2017 and from a Mapperley garden and
Woodthorpe Park in September 2018, when both single
adults and nymphs were found. Stephanitis takeyai must
now be well established in the county. Our thanks go to Tim who kindly
allowed us to use his photographs (top two) on the
website.
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