Stigmus pendulus

A mainly black bodied species.

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Generally found associated with twigs or dead timber, including fence posts where wood-boring beetles have left holes.

The very limited data suggests the flight period is July and August, with a few records extending into September and occasional records from the second half of June.

Possible nesting sites are the small holes left by wood-boring beetles in standing dead wood or damaged trunk sections of Pedunculate Oak.

Widespread in the Home Counties and spreading northwards through the central midlands, with scattered records from Dorset to Shropshire, Lancashire, County Durham, Yorkshire and East Anglia.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.