Trypoxylon minus de Beaumont,1945
Description and notes
Knowles (2009) provides guidance on the identification of this species within the T. figulus-group.
Distribution
Falk (1991) notes this as a British species on the strength of a single female from Sittingbourne in East Kent in 1959, collected by J C Felton, although not identified as such until many years later.
Bitsch et al. (2001) indicate that this species is reasonably well scattered across France and present in the western and central Palaearctic across to western Siberia.
Status (in Britain only)
Listed in Falk (1991) as Insufficiently Known (RDBK).
Habitat
The only British record was from a garden.
Flight period
The Kent record was from June, with Dollfuss (1991) giving May until September for the Continent.
Prey collected
There is no information specific to this species. In general, the genus preys on small spiders.
Nesting biology
No available data, but probably nests in old tunnels in dead wood or hollow plant stems.
Flowers visited
No data available.
Parasites
No data available.
Year profile last updated
2019