Mycetophagus fulvicollis

Key Details

Taxonomic Groups: Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Darkling beetle or ally
Red List Status: Regionally Extinct (GB scale) (Not Relevant) [RE(nr)]
D5 Status: Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022)
Section 41 Status: (not listed)
Taxa Included Synonym: (none)
UKSI Recommended Name: Mycetophagus fulvicollis
UKSI Recommended Authority: Fabricius, 1792
UKSI Recommended Qualifier: (none specified)
Red List Citation: Alexander et al., 2014
Notes on taxonomy/listing: (none)

Criteria

Question 1: Does species need conservation or recovery in England?
Response: No
Justification: Regionally Extinct. Only two modern records in Scotland at the Black Wood of Rannoch in 1865 and 1870. In England only known as a Neolithic subfossil from the Somerset Levels, so not a candidate for species recovery here.
Question 2: Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions?
Response: No
Justification: Regionally Extinct. Only two modern records in Scotland at the Black Wood of Rannoch in 1865 and 1870. In England only known as a Neolithic subfossil from the Somerset Levels, so not a candidate for species recovery here.
Question 3: At a landscape scale, would the species benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages?
Response: N/A
Justification:

Species Assessment

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Key Actions

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Acknowledgment:
Data used on this website are adapted from Threatened species recovery actions 2025 baseline (JP065): Technical report and spreadsheet user guide (Natural England, 2025). Available here.