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Appendix 6 Rare and threatened invertebrate and vascular plant species
identified from desktop study
We were able to find reference to 78 invertebrate species which were either included
on the relevant UK Red List and/or listed in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan and/or
in the section 41 list of species of principal importance for nature conservation in
England. These are listed in the table below.
In addition to the above, we were able to find reference to 18 vascular plant species
which were either included on the relevant UK Red List and/or listed in the UK
Biodiversity Action Plan and/or in the section 41 list of species of principal
importance for nature conservation in England.
This list excludes species considered Nationally Scarce (previously known as
Notable, in the case of invertebrates) or rare or scarce in the county, except where
they are included within one of the classifications below.
Data sources were Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre, Kent Red Data
Book, historic survey data held on Kent Wildlife Trust files, and survey data reported
in documents associated with the planning proposals.
Explanation of Red List categories applicable to invertebrates:
RDB1 Endangered (pre 1994): Taxa in danger of extinction and whose survival is
unlikely if the causal factors keep operating.
RDB2 Vulnerable (pre 1994): Taxa believed likely to move into the Endangered
category in the near future.
NB Vulnerable (post 1994): From 1994, a taxon was determined as Vulnerable when
it was not Critically Endangered or Endangered but was facing a high risk of
extinction in the wild in the medium-term future,
RDB3 Rare (pre 1994): Taxa with small populations which are not at present
Endangered or Vulnerable but are at risk.
RDBK Insufficiently known (pre 1994): Taxa suspected of falling within categories
1-3, but about which there is insufficient information to be certain.
NB a lower-case ‘p’ before the RDB criterion indicates provision status, where the
status has not been formally published.
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Section 41 invertebrate species of principal importance for the conservation of
biodiversity in England
Scientific Name
Anergates atratulus
Thalera fimbrialis
Hadena albimacula
Leptothorax
interruptus
Bombus humilis
Common Name Noted as occurring at Most
recent
date
Dark Guest Ant Dungeness
Criterion
S41
UKBAP
Global Red List Status =
Vulnerable
Sussex Emerald Dungeness SSSI
1999 S41
UKBAP
RDB1 Endangerd
(pre 1994 listing)
White Spot moth Dungeness. Within
1999 S41
Dungenesss, Romney
UKBAP
RDB3 Rare
Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI
(pre 1994 listing)
A slender-bodied Dungeness SSSI
1994 S41
ant
UKBAP
RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Brown-Banded
Lydd / Lydd Airport.
July - Sept S41
Carder Bee
Land to southeast of
2005
UKBAP
main runway
Bombus muscorum
Moss Carder Bee Lydd
Bombus ruderarius
Red-shanked
Carder Bee
Lydd
Bombus ruderatus
Large Garden
Bumblebee
Lydd; Dungeness
Bombus sylvarum
Shrill Carder Bee Gravel pit; Lydd
Brachylomia viminalis Minor Shoulderknot
22/08/1975 S41
UKBAP
20/08/1972 S41
UKBAP
14/06/1975 S41
UKBAP
2010 S41
UKBAP
Lydd Airport approach 15/07/2008 S41
road
UKBAP (research only)
Coenonympha
pamphilus
Small Heath
Lydd Airport
Hoplodrina blanda
The Rustic
Hydraecia osseola
Marsh Mallow
moth
Lydd Airport approach 14/07/2008 S41
road
UKBAP (research only)
Dungeness. Described
1999 S41
in Ch10.4.10 as,
UKBAP
"Present on the grazing
marshes"
Lydd Airport approach 14/07/2008 S41
road
UKBAP (research only)
Malacosoma neustria Lackey moth
09/06/2005 S41
UKBAP
Melanchra persicariae Dot Moth
Lydd Airport approach 14/07/2008 S41
road
UKBAP (research only)
Melanotus
punctolineatus
Sandwich Click
beetle
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Mesoligia literosa
Rosy Minor
Lydd Airport approach 15/07/2008 S41
road
UKBAP (research only)
1991 S41
UKBAP
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UK Biodiversity Action Plan invertebrate species not included in s41 list
Scientific Name
Calophasia lunula
Aplasta ononaria
Common Name Noted as occurring at Most
Criterion
recent
date
Toadflax Brocade Dungeness
23/08/1999 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Restharrow moth near Dungeness
1999 UKBAP
RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
UK Red List invertebrate species
Scientific Name
Common Name Noted as occurring at Most
Criterion
recent
date
Aphrodes duffieldi
A leafhopper
Dungeness
1999 Endemic
RDBK Insufficiently
Known
(pre 1994 listing)
Campiglossa malaris Mottled Ragwort Dungeness
1999 RDBK Insufficiently
Fly
Known
(pre 1994 listing)
Chirosia aberrans
A fly
Dungeness
RDBK Insufficiently
Known
(pre 1994 listing)
2006 pRDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Apostenus fuscus
A spider
Clostera anachoreta
Scarce Chocolate Dungeness.
Tip
Dungeness SSSI
1999 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Coleophora
galbulipenella (C.
otitae)
A case-bearing
moth
Dungeness. Within
Dungenesss, Romney
Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI
1999 pRDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Cydia lobarzewskii
A moth
Dungeness
Dibolia cynoglossi
A flea beetle
Dungeness (within the
power station
compound). Within
Dungenesss, Romney
Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI
RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
1993 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Eilema pygmaeola ssp Dungeness Pigmy Dungeness SSSI
pallifrons
Footman
2008 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Evagetes pectinipes
1999 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Lasiocampa trifolii spp Pale Grass Eggar Within Dungenesss,
flava
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Nomada ferruginata
Omophron limbatum
Pellenes tripunctatus
Pilophorus confusus
A spider-hunting
wasp
1999 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
10/06/1905 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
A ground beetle Dungeness-Lydd area.
1999 RDB1 Endangered
Within Dungenesss,
(pre 1994 listing)
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
A jumping spider Within Dungenesss,
1993 RDB1 Endangered
Romney Marsh & Rye
(pre 1994 listing)
Bay SSSI
a cuckoo bee
Dungeness
A true bug
Dungeness (Long Pits)
1981 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
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1988 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
1998 RDB1 Endangered
(pre 1994 listing)
1999 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Polyodaspis sulcicollis A grass fly
Dungeness
Tinagma balteolella
A moth
Dungeness
Dyschirius obscurus
A ground beetle
Lydd-Dungeness Area.
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Erynnia ocypterata
A fly
Dungeness
Ethmia bipunctella
A moth
Dungeness
21/06/1905 pRDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Ethmia terminella
A moth
Dungeness
19/06/1905 pRDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Gelechia muscosella
A moth
Dungeness
Odontomyia ornata
A true fly
Lydd Airport site
Pediasia fascelinella
A moth
Dungeness
1990 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Land to south east of
main runway at Lydd
Airport
2005 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Philanthus triangulum Bee-wolf
Scopula nigropunctata Sub-angled Wave Dungeness
1937 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
1991 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
29/06/1905 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
1999 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
1991 Vulnerable
(post 1994 listing)
Tachydromia terricola A fly
Lydd; ARC Pit at
Dungeness;
Dungeness SSSI
Trichonchus affinis
A spider
Dungeness
1989 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Trichopterna cito
A spider
Dungeness
1989 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Xyletinus longitarsis
A beetle
Dungeness
1963 RDB2 Vulnerable
(pre 1994 listing)
Acleris permutana
A moth
Dungeness
Apion rubiginosum
A weevil
Dungeness
Cantharis fusca
A soldier beetle
Dungeness; Lydd
Ranges.
1998 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1988 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1987 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Ceutorhynchus
verrucatus
A weevil
Lydd Ranges along the
South Brooks Road
and at West Ripe on
Dungeness
1984 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Cynaeda dentalis
A moth
Lydd Airport. Near the
location of the
proposed new terminal
building
2008 pRDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Dromius vectensis
A ground beetle
Dungeness
1991 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Dungeness
1991 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Dryophilus anobioides A beetle
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Eilema pygmaeola ssp Pigmy footman
pygmaeola
Dungeness
1999 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Enochrus isotae
A water beetle
Land to southeasts of
main runway at Lydd
Airport
2007 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Euophrys browningi
A jumping spider Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Marbled Clover
Dungeness
moth
1984 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Heliothis viriplaca
1959 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Graptodytes bilineatus A water beetle
Lydd Airport site
2007 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Heterocerus
hispidulus
Lydd-Dungeness Area.
1972 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Hydrochus elongatus A beetle
Lydd Airport site
2007 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Hydrophilus piceus
Great Silver
Water Beetle
Lydd Airport site
2007 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Hylaeus euryscapus
A yellow-faced
bee
Caravan site;
Greatstone-on-Sea;
Lydd; Dungeness
Lathys stigmatisata
A spider
A beetle
25/06/1996 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1988 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Melissoblaptes zelleri A moth
Dungeness
1998 pRDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Minettia flaviventris
A fly
Dungeness
1988 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Monosynamma
maritima
A true bug
Dungeness
RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Nyctegretis lineana
A moth
Dungeness
14/06/1905 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1991 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1992 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Passaloecus clypealis A solitary wasp
Dungeness
Phlegra fasciata
A jumping spider Dungeness; Lydd
Ranges.
Smicronyx coecus
A weevil
Dungeness and Lydd
Ranges
1989 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Telmatophilus
brevicollis
A beetle
Dungeness
1985 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
Yponomeuta rorrella
Willow Ermine
Dungeness
Metzneria
neuropterella
A moth
Dungeness
1995 RDB3 Rare
(pre 1994 listing)
1965 Red List status
‘Indeterminate’
(pre 1994 listing)
Neofriseria peliella
A moth
Dungeness
20/06/1905 Red List status
‘Indeterminate’
(pre 1994 listing)
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Explanation of Red List categories applicable to vascular plants:
Extinct in the Wild: a taxon is Extinct in the Wild when it is known only to survive in
cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalized population (or populations) well outside
the past range.
Critically Endangered: a taxon is Critically Endangered when it is considered to be
facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild, based on best available
evidence and assessment against identified criteria.
Endangered: a taxon is Endangered when it is considered to be facing a very high risk
of extinction in the wild, based on best available evidence and assessment against
identified criteria.
Vulnerable: a taxon is Vulnerable when it is considered to be facing a high risk of
extinction in the wild, based on best available evidence and assessment against
identified criteria.
Near Threatened: a taxon is Near Threatened when it has been evaluated against the
criteria but does not qualify for Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable
now, but is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in
the near future.
NB a lower-case ‘p’ before the RDB criterion indicates provision status, where the
status has not been formally published.
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Section 41 vascular plant species of principal importance for the conservation of
biodiversity in England
Scientific Name
Common Name Location
Crepis foetida
Stinking Hawk's- Dungeness SSSI
beard
Galeopsis angustifolia Red Hemp-nettle "shingle beaches of
Dungenss and Rye
Harbour"
Carex divisa
Divided Sedge
Hordeum marinum
Sea Barley
Lactuca saligna
Least Lettuce
Potamogeton
acutifolius
Sharp-leaved
Pondweed
Littlestone-on-Sea.
Dymchurch. Romney.
New Romney. Lydd
Airport - south of main
runway on western
side of airport ground.
Dungeness, Romney
Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Most
recent
date
Criterion
1999 S41
UKBAP
Extinct in the wild
(Red List 2001)
1997 S41
UKBAP
Critically Endangered
(Red List 2001)
Jun-05 S41
UKBAP
Vulnerable
(Red List 2001)
1999 S41
UKBAP
Dungeness, Romnney 2006 (date S41
Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI of SSSI
UKBAP
schedules states,
notification
"Around Camber
Castle...". And "Rye
Harbour LNR." and
"shingle beaches"
Within Dungenesss,
1998 S41; UKBAP
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Puccinellia fasciculata Borrer's
Littlestone; Romney
Saltmarsh-Grass Marsh & Rye Bay SSSI
1998 S41; UKBAP
Scleranthus annuus
Annual Knawel
Dungeness
Sium latifolium
Greater Waterparsnip
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
S41; UKBAP
Endangered
(Red List 2001)
1997 S41; UKBAP
Endangered
(Red List 2001)
UK Red List vascular plant species
Scientific Name
Common Name Location
Most
recent
date
Criterion
Cuscuta epithymenum Dodder
Lydd Airport
2005 Vulnerable
(Red List 2001)
Frankenia laevis
Sea-Heath
1999 Vulnerable
(Red List 2001)
Medicago minima
Bur Medick
Romney Marsh.
Littlestone on Sea.
Dymchurch and New
Romney. Lydd
Ranges.
Dungeness SSSI
Silene conica
Sand Catchfly
Romney
1988 (date Vulnerable
of
(Red List 2001)
Dungeness
SSSI
notification)
1998 Vulnerable
(Red List 2001)
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Wolffia arrhiza
Rootless
Duckweed
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
1997 Vulnerable
(Red List 2001)
Ruppia cirrhosa
Beaked
Tasselweed
New Romney
1994 Near Threatened
(Red List 2001)
Silene nutans
Nottingham
Catchfly
Within Dungenesss,
Romney Marsh & Rye
Bay SSSI
Teesdalia nudicaulis
Shepherd's Cress Lydd Airport
Vicia lutea
Yellow Vetch
June 2005 Near Threatened
(Red List 2001)
2005 Near Threatened
(Red List 2001)
Within Dungenesss,
2006 (date Near Threatened
Romney Marsh & Rye of SSSI
(Red List 2001)
Bay SSSI
notification)
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