UK BAP priority
terrestrial invertebrate species
A list of the UK BAP priority terrestrial invertebrate
species, divided by taxonomic group into Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs and Other
invertebrates (Crustaceans, Worms, Cnidaria, Bryozoans,
Millipedes, Centipedes) is provided in the table below. The
list was created between 1995 and 1999, and subsequently updated in
response to the Species and Habitats
Review Report (PDF, 1.3Mb), published in 2007. The
table also provides details of the species' occurences in the four
UK countries, and describes whether the species was an 'original'
species (on the original list created between 1995 and 1999), or
was added following the 2007 review. All original
species were provided with Species Action Plans (SAPs), species
statements, or are included within grouped plans or
statements, whereas there are no published plans for the
species added in 2007.
UK BAP priority species were those that were identified as being
the most threatened and requiring conservation action under the UK
Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP). However, as a result of
devolution, and new country-level and international drivers and
requirements, much of the work previously carried out by the UK BAP
is now focussed at a country-level rather than a UK-level, and the
UK BAP has recently (July 2012) been succeeded by the 'UK
Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework'. The UK list of
priority species, however, remains an important reference source
and has been used to help draw up statutory lists of priorities in
England,
Scotland, Wales
and Northern
Ireland.
Current scientific names and commonly used synonyms derive from
the Nameserver facility of the National Biodiversity Network Species
Dictionary, which is managed by the Natural History
Museum. More detailed information about the distribution and
taxonomy of these species can be found using the NBN Gateway, and details of the
original Species Action Plans (SAPs), generated between 1995
and 1999, can be found on the
original (archived) UK BAP website, or on
the BARS
1 website, which was archived in April 2012 following the
launch of BARS 2.
JNCC have collated already-published information from a
variety of sources for all of the UK BAP priority species, to bring
these data together into a single report, or 'species
account'. All of this information is already
available on either the JNCC website, the NBN Gateway, or the BARS
1 website. Each individual species account can be
accessed by selecting the name in the table below, or through
the priority species
accounts spreadsheet. For more detail about the
information within the species accounts, visit the Priority species accounts page>>.
Insects
Arachnids
* The occurrences of Agroeca cuprea and Mecopisthes
peusi were updated to include Scotland in August 2011 as it
was noted that the Spider Recording Scheme and the NBN
gateway indicated that these species were present in
Scotland.
** Note, however, that the priority species accounts for
Agroeca cuprea and Mecopisthes peusi do not
contain this most up-to-date information about their distribution
in Scotland, as they were created in 2010, and there are currently
no plans to update them.
Molluscs
Other invertebrates