Wicken Fen rare species

[edcapstick87]

Hello all,

I am writing a novel about the fens of Cambridgeshire, and am in desperate need of some information which my traipsing around the internet has not been able to unearth. If any of you would be able to help, I would be greatly indebted. 

So, I am trying to find out about the endemic insect species of the fens, and have found a list of species which are (apparently) more or less only found there. They are as follows:


Eurysula lurida
Gyrophaena pseudonana
Microptilium palustre
Oberea oculata
Ptilium affine
Ptilium caesum
Grammotaulius nitidus
Emmelina argoteles
Scrobipalpa pauperella
Anticheta obliviosa
Cyturella albosetosa
Dolichopus plumitarsis
Platypalpus pallidiseta

I am afraid I only have the latin names. I was wondering if there were any entomologists with particular expertise in the fenland regions of East Anglia who could furnish me with any details on these creatures please. What I am looking for is anything of particular, or peculiar, interest... do any of them have particularly distinctive feeding habits, life cycles, mating practices? Anything that a novelist could get his teeth into, essentially!

As I say, any help would be gratefully received, and repaid - of course - with acknowledgement. 

Thanks in advance. 

[trehopr1]

I suggest you get in contact with our forum member NOMAD via messages.

He is very knowledgeable regarding the rarer things in Britain and British
entomological history.

[edcapstick87]

Thank you very much - I will do exactly that.