(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
ACANTHOSPERMUM. Spiny-bur. [Asteraceae]
Two species of Acanthospermum are recorded in Britain. Both are introduced and include Spiny-bur (A. australe).
No miners are recorded on Acanthospermum in Britain.
Elsewhere the polyphagous agromyzid Liriomyza sativae is recorded on Acanthospermum hispidum.