Beetles
A list of Beetles (Coleoptera) that have been found in the study area.
| Name | Family | Species | Locality (with dates of first records) |
| a diving beetle | Dytiscidae | Hygrotus inaequalis | Wanstead Flats near Alexandra Lake 12/07/2011; Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| Great Diving Beetle | Dytiscidae | Dytiscus marginalis | Capel Road garden 07/05/2013 |
| a ground beetle | Carabidae | Amara sp. ? | Capel Road garden 21/04/06 |
| a ground beetle | Carabidae | Dromius linearis | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015 |
| Devil's coach-horse | Staphylinidae | Ocypus olens | On the Plain in Wanstead Park 23/09/2001 |
| Lesser Stag Beetle | Lucanidae | Dorcus parallelipipedus | Wanstead Park 05/07/2003 |
| Dog-pooh Dung Beetle | Scarabaeidae | Onthophagus sp. | Wanstead Park 30/05/2008 |
| a dor beetle | Scarabaeidae | Onthophagus sp. | Sewage Works site 25/05/2015 |
| Summer Chafer | Scarabaeidae | Amphimallon solstitiale | Wanstead Flats around oaks by Capel Rd. 10/07/2005 |
| Chequered Click Beetle ? | Elateridae | Prosternon tessellatum ? | Wanstead Park 09/06/08 |
| a click beetle | Elateridae | Athous bicolor ? | Capel Road garden 12/06/2006 |
| a click beetle | Elateridae | Athous haemorrhoidalis |
City of London Cemetery 13/05/2008 |
| a click beetle | Elateridae | Agriotes sputator ? | Capel Road garden 14/07/2005 |
| a soldier beetle | Cantharidae | Cantharis sp. (poss. figurata) | Capel Road garden 13/06/2006 |
| a soldier beetle | Cantharidae | Cantharis fusca | Sewage Works site 02/06/2006 |
| a soldier beetle | Cantharidae | Cantharis sp. (poss. rustica) | Wanstead Park 30/05/2008 |
| a soldier beetle | Cantharidae | Rhagonycha fulva | Wanstead Park 21/07/2005; Capel Road garden 02/07/2006; Leyton Flats 03/07/2007 |
| Fur Beetle ? | Dermestidae | Attagenus pellio ? | Capel Road house 01/03/2007 |
| a carpet beetle | Dermestidae | Anthrenus verbasci | Capel Road house 10/04/2006 |
| a spider beetle | Ptinidae | Gibbium sp. |
Capel Road garden 05/10/2013 |
| Golden Spider Beetle | Ptinidae | Niptus hololeucus | CoL Cemetery, 18/11/2014 |
| Malachite Beetle | Melyridae | Malachius bipustulatus | Sewage Works site 23/05/2006; Capel Road garden 23/04/2011 |
| False Ladybird | Endomychidae | Endomychus coccineus | Wanstead Park 30/08/2006 |
| a ladybird | Coccinellidae | Rhyzobius litura | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015 (RS,PF) |
| Pine Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Exochomus 4-pustulatus | City of London Cemetery 15/03/2008; Wanstead Flats 05/07/2014 |
| Orange Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Halyzia 16-guttata | Capel Road garden 06/09/2004 |
| 22-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Psyllobora 22-punctata | Capel Road garden 11/05/2006; Wanstead Park 31/07/2008; Sewage Works 10/07/2011 |
| Cream-spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Calvia 14-guttata | Wanstead Flats 14/05/2005; Wanstead Park 06/05/2010 |
| 14-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Propylea 14-punctata | Capel Road garden 10/08/04 |
| Harlequin Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Harmonia axyridis | City of London Cemetery 09/10/2005; Capel Road garden 05/04/2006; Wanstead Flats 07/05/2006; Wanstead Park 07/10/2006 |
| 2-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Adalia 2-punctata | Common - Capel Road garden 16/05/2006 |
| 10-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Adalia 10-punctata | Capel Road garden, 22/04/2006; Capel Road house, 08/01/2014; Capel Road garden, 08/05/2014 |
| 7-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Coccinella 7-punctata | Wanstead Park 23/11/2001; Tarzy Wood 12/02/2005; CoL Cemy 27/10/2005; Capel Rd garden 21/04/2006; Sewage Works 23/05/2006; Wanstead Flats 25/05/2006; Bush Wood 23/02/2007 |
| 13-Spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Hippodamia 13-punctata | In the Exchange Lands on 12/06/2010 |
| Water Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Anisosticta 14-punctata | The Forest Pond, Gilbert's Slade, 10/05/2008 |
| 16-spot Ladybird |
Coccinellidae | Tytthaspis 16-punctata | Capel Rd garden 07/05/2006; Wanstead Park 06/06/2008 |
| 24-spot Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Subcoccinella 24-punctata | Wanstead Flats near Alexandra Lake, 30/03/2012 |
| Wasp Nest Beetle | Rhipiphoridae | Metoecus paradoxus | Capel Road garden 11/07/2007 |
| a darkling beetle | Tenebrionidae | Lagria hirta ? | Wanstead Park 23/07/2005 |
| a darkling beetle | Tenebrionidae | Cylindrinotus laevioctostriatus ? | Wanstead Flats 24/04/2007 |
| a darkling beetle | Tenebrionidae | Eledona agricola | Capel Road garden 11/06/2006 |
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Swollen-thighed Beetle |
Oedemeridae | Oedemera nobilis | Wanstead Flats 17/06/2005; Capel Road gdn 12/06/2006; Wanstead Park 22/06/2006; Bush Wood North 12/06/2007; CoL Cemy 06/05/2009; Sewage Works 04/07/2013 |
| a flower beetle | Oedemeridae | Oedemera lurida | Wanstead Park 06/06/2008 |
| Black-headed Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroidae | Pyrochroa coccinea | Wanstead Park 08/05/2007 |
| Red-headed Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroidae | Pyrochroa serraticornis | City of London Cemetery, by the Birches, 13/05/08; Wanstead Park, 31/05/2013; Wanstead Flats nr Aldersbrook Service Station, 29/04/2014 |
| a longhorn beetle | Cerambycidae | Alosterna tabacicolor | Capel Road garden 27/05/2012 |
| Spotted Longhorn | Cerambycidae | Rutpela (Strangalia) maculata | Wanstead Park 27/06/2007; Capel Road garden 23/07/2012 |
| Wasp Beetle | Cerambycidae | Clytus arietis | Sewage Works 02/06/2006 |
| a longhorn beetle | Cerambycidae | Mesosa nebulosa | Capel Road garden 25/07/2013 |
| a longhorn beetle | Cerambycidae | Agapanthia villosoviridescens | Sewage Works 21/07/2013 |
| a leaf beetle | Chrysomelidae | Donacia simplex ? | Wanstead Park 20/05/2014 |
| Green Tortoise Beetle | Chrysomelidae | Cassida viridis | Wanstead Park 03/07/2013 |
| Thistle Tortoise Beetle | Chrysomelidae | Cassida rubiginosa |
Wanstead Park 01/06/2007 |
| a leaf beetle | Chrysomelidae | Chrysolina oricalcia ? | Wanstead Park 23/09/2013 |
| Rosemary Beetle | Chrysomelidae | Chrysolina americana | On a nettle by Perch Pond, Wanstead Park, 6 October 2008 |
| Green Dock Beetle | Chrysomelidae | Gastrophysa viridula | Wanstead Park 26/07/2005 |
| a leaf beetle | Chrysomelidae | Galeruca tanaceti | Near rough grassland on Wanstead Flats, 05/09/2014, found by Rose Stephens |
| a flea beetle | Chrysomelidae | Altica sp. | By the Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park, 18/05/2006 |
| Apple Fruit Weevil | Attelibidae | Rhynchites aequatus | By Alders Brook bridle path, 17/06/2015 |
| Oak-leaf Roller | Attelibidae | Attelabus nitens | Wanstead Park 10/05/2008 |
| Gorse Weevil | Apionidae | Exapion ulicis | City of London Cemetery 27/04/2015 |
| Vine Weevil | Curculionidae | Otiorhynchus sulcatus | Capel Road garden 12/10/2007 |
| a weevil | Curculionidae | Phyllobius sp. ? | Wanstead Flats 14/05/2009 |
| Clover Leaf Weevil | Curculionidae | Hypera postica ? | Green Man underpass, 16/05/2015 |
| a weevil | Curculionidae | Cionus sp. (poss. scrophulariae) | Capel Road garden 18/05/2014 |
| Acorn Weevil | Curculionidae | Curculio glandium | Wanstead Park 01/08/2012; Capel Road garden 16/07/2013 |
| Large Elm Bark Beetle | Scolytidae | Scolytus scolytus | City of London Cemetery 27/10/05 |
In addition, a large number of beetles have been found by others, and below are listed those that I have records of but have not been seen by myself:
| Name | Family | Species | Locality (with dates of first records) |
| Screech Beetle | Hygrobiidae | Hygrobia hermanni | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a diving beetle | Dytiscidae | Laccophilus minutus | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a diving beetle | Dytiscidae | Hyphydrus ovatus | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a diving beetle | Dytiscidae | Hydroporos planus | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a diving beetle | Dytiscidae | Acilius sulcatus | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a ground beetle | Carabidae | Pterostichus madidus | Wanstead Flats on path near broom TQ407864, 09/2014 (Rose Stephens); again near Alexandra Lake on 11/09/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a water beetle | Hydrophilidae | Anacaena globulus | Wanstead Park, Perch Pond, bio-blitz on 05/10/2014 |
| a rove beetle | Staphylinidae | Tachyporus hypnorum | City of London Cemetery 12/03/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Stag Beetle | Lucanidae | Lucanus cervus | Near Hollow Pond, 16/06/2013, Pamela Gamesby |
| Adonis Ladybird | Coccinellidae | Adonia variegata | Wanstead Flats, 28/10/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| Cellar Beetle | Tenebrionidae | Blaps mucronata | Lorne Road, 17/08/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a leaf beetle | Chrysomelidae | Galeruca tanaceti | Near rough grassland on Wanstead Flats, 05/09/2014, found by Rose Stephens |
| a flea beetle | Chrysomelidae | Longitarsus dorsalis | On Ragwort in Manor Park Cemetery, 10/01/2016, Rose Stephens |
| a flea beetle | Chrysomelidae | Longitarsus (flavicornis/jacobaea) | On Ragwort in Manor Park Cemetery, Rose Stephens, 05/01/2016 |
| a leaf beetle | Chrysomelidae | Psylliodes sp. | 11/09/2014, Rose Stephens, |
| Dock Weevil | Apionidae | Apion frumentarium | Lorne Rd., Forest Gate, Rose Stephens, 05/11/2015 |
| Common Leaf Weevil | Curculionidae | Phyllobius pyri | Wanstead Flats 02/04/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Nut Leaf Weevil | Curculionidae | Strophosoma melanogrammum | Wanstead Flats, on broom, 13/11/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a weevil | Curculionidae | Sitona regensteinensis | Wanstead Flats, on broom, 16/11/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| Poplar Tree Weevil | Curculionidae | Dorytomus (dejeani?) | Manor Park Cemetry, 30/01/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Name | Species | Locality |
| For Dragonflies click here | Zygoptera | |
| Grasshoppers and Crickets | Orthoptera | |
| Common Green Grasshopper | Omocestulus viridulus | Sewage Works 10/08/01 |
| Common Field Grasshopper | Chorthippus brunneus | SW; COL cemetery |
| Meadow Grasshopper | Chorthippus parallelus | SW; Wanstead Park |
| Long-winged Conehead | Conocephalus discolor | Sewage Works on 10/09/90; Wanstead Flats; Wanstead Park |
| Oak Bush-cricket | Meconema thalassinum | Common on Wanstead Flats |
| Speckled Bush-cricket | Leptophyes punctatissima | Common around Wanstead Park |
| Slender Ground -hopper | Tetrix subulata | In rough vegetation on S. side of Heronry Pond, 24/04/09 |
| Dark Bush Cricket | Pholidoptera griseoaptera | COL; First found in Wanstead Park on 27/06/07 |
| Roesel's Bush-cricket | Metrioptera roeselii | Common on Flats, in Park and in Sewage Works and COL cemetery |
| House Cricket | Acheta domestica | By stables near Sewage Works and in CoL Cemetery. Not heard since 2006 |
| Bugs | Hemiptera | |
| Water Scorpion | Nepa cinerea | In Heronry Pond |
| Water Boatman | Corix punctata | Capel Road garden |
| Striped Oak Bug | Calocoris quadripunctatus | Capel Road by Wanstead Flats |
| a mirid bug | Liocoris tripustulatus | Capel Road garden |
| a mirid bug | Stenotus binotatus | Wanstead Park, 9 June and 27 June 2007 |
| a mirid bug | Sewage Works site | |
| a mirid bug | Heterotoma planicornis | Capel Road garden, 8 July 2007 |
| a mirid bug | Plagiognathus arbustorum (?) | Capel Road garden |
| Shield and Brassica Bugs | Heteroptera | |
| Shield Bug | Coreus marginatus | Capel Road garden, Wanstead Park |
| Shield Bug | Gonocerus acuteangulatus (?) | City of London Cemetery |
| Shield Bug | Myrmus miriformis | Wanstead Park |
| Tortoise Bug | Eurygaster testudinaria | Wanstead Flats on 11/05/09 |
| Bishop's Mitre | Aelia acuminata | Wanstead Park, Sewage Works |
| Sloe Bug | Dolycoris baccarum | Wanstead Park, 27 June 2007 |
|
Woundwort Shield Bug |
Eysarcoris fabricii | Common in Capel Road garden |
| Green Shield-bug | Palomena prasina | Common - col, gdn, wp |
|
Forest Shield Bug |
Pentatoma rufipes | Capel Road garden |
| Brassica Bug | Eurydema oleracea | Wanstead Flats, 26 April 2007 |
| Hawthorn Bug | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale | City of London Cemetery |
| Juniper Bug | Elasmostethus tristriatus | City of London Cemetery, 16 September 2008 |
| Parent Bug | Elasmucha grisea | Wanstead Park by OW on Alder, 6 October 2008 |
| Homopteran Bugs | Homoptera | |
| Leafhopper | Lassus lanio | Common in grassland and gardens |
|
American Leaf Hopper |
Graphocephala fennahi | Common in City of London Cemetery |
| Beetles | Coleoptera | |
| Lesser Stag Beetle | Dorcus parallelopipedus | Wanstead Park, 5 July 2003 |
| Devil's coach-horse | Ocypus olens | On the Plain in Wanstead Park 23/09/01 |
| Darkling Beetle | Cylindronotus laevioctostriatus (?) | Wanstead Flats on 24 April 2007. |
| Darkling Beetle | Eledona agricola | Capel Road garden, 11 June 2006 |
| Summer Chafer | Amphimallon solstitiale | Wanstead Flats around oaks by Capel Rd. |
| Click Beetle | Athous bicolor (?) | Capel Road garden, 12 June 2006 |
| Soldier Beetle | Cantharis sp. (poss. figurata) | Capel Road garden, 13 June 2006 |
|
Soldier Beetle |
Cantharis sp. (poss. rustica) | Sewage Works site, 2 June 2006 |
|
Soldier Beetle |
Rhagonycha fulva | Wanstead Park |
|
Carpet Beetle |
Anthrenus verbasci | Capel Road house |
|
Malachite Beetle |
Malachius bipustulatus | Sewage Works site |
|
Beetle |
Endomychus coccineus | Wanstead Park |
| Pine Ladybird | Exochomus 4-pustulatus | City of London Cemetery - many on 17/03/09 |
| Orange Ladybird | Halyzia 16-guttata | Capel Road garden |
|
22-Spot Ladybird |
Psyllobora 22-punctata | Capel Road garden |
| 14-Spot Ladybird | Propylea 14-punctata | Capel Road garden 10/08/04 |
| Harlequin Ladybird | Harmonia axyridis | Vey common everywhere |
| 2-Spot Ladybird | Adalia 2-punctata | Common |
|
10-Spot Ladybird |
Adalia 10-punctata | Capel Road garden |
| 7-Spot Ladybird | Coccinella 7-punctata | Common |
| Water Ladybird | Anisosticta 14-punctata | The Forest Pond, Gilbert's Slade, 10 May 2008 |
| Mealworm Beetle | Tenebrio molitor (?) | Capel Road garden |
|
Swollen-thighed Beetle |
Oedemera nobilis | Frequent in Wanstead Park; also in Capel Road gdn, Green Man Roundabout and elsewhere |
| Black-headed Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroa coccinea | Wanstead Park |
| Common Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroa serraticornis | City of London Cemetery, by the Birches, 13/05/08 |
| a longhorn beetle | Strangalia (Leptura) maculata | Wanstead Park |
|
Wasp Beetle |
Clytus arietis | Sewage Works |
| Rosemary Beetle | Chrysolina americana | On a nettle by Perch Pond, Wanstead Park, 6 October 2008 |
| a flea beetle | Altica sp. | By the Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park, 18 May 2006 |
| Vine Weevil | Otiorhynchus sulcatus | Capel Road garden, 12 October 2007 |
| Wasps | Hymenoptera - Vespidae | |
|
Hornet |
Vespa crabro | Frequent in Wanstead Park; also Cemetery |
| Common Wasp | Vespula vulgaris | Capel Road garden |
|
a digger wasp |
Family Sphecid Wasps | Wanstead Flats |
| a digger wasp | Ectemnius sp. | Capel Road garden on 9 June 2007; also in Wanstead Park |
| Bees | Hymenoptera - various | |
|
a leaf-cutter Bee |
Megachile sp. | Capel Road garden, 2000 |
| Honey Bee | Apis mellifera | City of London Cemetery, 13 January 2008 |
|
Red-tailed Bumble Bee |
Bombus lapidarius | Wanstead Park |
|
White-tailed Bumblebee |
Bombus lucorum | Wanstead Park; Cemetery |
|
Common Carder Bee |
Bombus pascuorum | Wanstead Park |
|
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee |
Bombus terrestris | Wanstead Flats, 19 April 2006 |
| Wasps | Hymenoptera - various | |
|
a Parasitic Wasp |
Gasteruption jaculator (?) | Capel Road garden |
| an Ichneumon Wasp | Amblyteles armatorius (?) | Capel Road garden, 4 April 2007 |
|
an Ichneumon Wasp |
Ophion luteus (?) | Capel Road garden |
| an Ichneumon Wasp | Pimpla hypochondriaca | Capel Road garden |
| Sawflys | Symphyta | |
| Iris Sawfly | Rhadinoceraea micans | Wanstead Park |
|
a sawfly |
Abia sericea (?) | Capel Road garden |
| Rose Sawfly | Arge orchropus | Capel Road garden |
| a Sawfly | Arge pagana (?) | Capel Road garden, 7 June 2007 |
|
a Sawfly |
Rhogogaster viridis | Wanstead Park, 21 June 2007 |
| a sawfly | unidentified species (?) | Capel Road garden |
| For Moths click here | Lepidoptera |
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| For Butterflies click here | Lepidoptera | |
| Flies | Diptera - various | |
| a caddis fly | Mystacides longicornis | Capel Road garden |
| St. Mark's Fly | Bibio marci | Common in Wanstead Park and on Wanstead Flats |
|
a non-biting midge |
Chironomus plumosus | Wanstead Park |
| a soldier fly | Chloromyia formosa | Wanstead Park |
| a soldier fly | Sargus bipunctatus (?) | The Temple, Wanstead Park |
| Bee-fly | Bombylius sp. | Wanstead Park, 5 April 2008 |
|
horse fly |
poss. Thereva nobilitata | Wanstead Flats |
| a Dolichopod fly | Poecilobothrus nobilitatus | Capel Road garden |
| Hoverflies | Diptera - Syrphidae | |
| a Hoverfly | Melanostoma scalare | gdn?, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Platycheirus clypeatus (?) | gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Chrysotoxum bicinctum | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Chrysotoxum verralli | sw |
| a Hoverfly | Epistrophe eligans | gdn, wf |
| a Hoverfly | Epistrophe nitidicollis (?) | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Episyrphus balteatus | col, gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eupeodes luniger | gdn, wf |
| a Hoverfly | Meliscaeva auricollis | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Scaeva pyrastri | gdn, sw? wf, wp?, |
| a Hoverfly | Sphaerophoria rueppillii | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Sphaerophoria scripta | gdn?, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Syrphus ribesii | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Syrphus vitripennis (?) | gdn, wp? |
| a Hoverfly | Xanthogramma pedissequum | gdn, sw? wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis arbustorum (?) | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis intricarius | wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis pertinax | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis tenax | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Helophilus pendulus | gdn, sw, wp, |
| a Hoverfly | Myathropa florea | gdn, sw, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Pipizella viduata | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella inanis | gdn, wp? |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella pellucens | wp |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella zonaria | gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Syritta pipiens | gdn |
| Flies | Diptera - various | |
| a Conopid Fly | Sicus ferrugineus | Wanstead Park |
|
Bluebottle |
Calliphora sp. | Capel Road garden, wp |
|
Greenbottle |
Lucilia caesar | Capel Road garden |
|
a Flesh Fly |
Sarcophaga carnaria | wp |
|
a Tachinid Fly |
possibly Tachina fera | wp |
| a Tachinid Fly | unknown species | sw |
| Alderflies,Lacewings, etc. | Neuroptera | |
| an Alderfly | wp | |
| Green Lacewing | family Chrysopidae | Common |
| a Scorpion Fly | Panorpa sp. | wp |