Scottish
Platystomatidae
There are only two species of Platystomatidae included in the British
fauna, Platystoma seminationis
(Fabricius, 1775) and Rivellia
syngenesiae (Fabricius, 1781).
Only Rivellia syngenesiae is
presently known from Scotland and is, I
believe, rather under recorded. It has certainly been collected
from low herbage in country lanes and adjacent to pasture or meadow and
there may be an association with leguminous plants, on which the larvae
are reported to feed.
The following data is derived from specimens and literature records
held at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (NMSE).
Literature citations accumulated into an electronic database at the
Museum, regularly updated as new records appear in the literature.
Platystoma
seminationis (Fabricius,
1775)
The sparcity of the data (only 16 records) invokes a low confidence in this distribution and suggests that Rivellia syngenesiae may be much more widespread.
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