Globicornis nigripes
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Wood boring beetle or ally |
| Red List Status: | Vulnerable (Not Relevant) [VU(nr)] |
| D5 Status: | Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022) |
| Section 41 Status: | (not listed) |
| Taxa Included Synonym: | Globicornis rufitarsis |
| UKSI Recommended Name: | Globicornis nigripes |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Fabricius, 1792) |
| UKSI Recommended Qualifier: | (none specified) |
| Red List Citation: | Alexander, 2017 |
| Notes on taxonomy/listing: | (none) |
Criteria
| Question 1: | Does species need conservation or recovery in England? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Vulnerable. Known in Britain from four distinct areas across England: Windsor Forest & Great Park and surrounding area; Severn Vale - Bredon Hill, Croome Park, Forthampton Oaks; Wyre Forest; and High Park, Blenheim. There is no direct evidence for decline, but this may be inferred as the availability of host trees must be diminishing with continuing agricultural intensification. It has only been documented from six locations (six tetrads) since 1990, i.e. an Area of Occupancy of 24 square km. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | Yes |
| Justification: | Minimum intervention management will not provide conditions suitable for the development of suitable host trees |
| 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: | Yes |
| Justification: | The decline factor is common to all saproxylics though and this one could ride of the actions performed for the other species and more widely in the saproxylic action package that ought to come out of all this work. |
Species Assessment
Not relevant as no Key Actions defined.
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.