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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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CITRUS.
Oranges and Lemons. [Rutaceae]
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Citrus
is not recorded in Britain.
One Lepidpteran
leaf-miner, Phyllocnistis
citrella, is recorded on Citrus imported into Britain.
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Key for the identification of the known mines of British
insects (Diptera and non-Diptera) recorded on Citrus
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1 > Leaf-miner: Long epidermal corridor with a well-marked central frass line. Mine
mostly lower-surface, less often upper-surface, and rarely on the
rind of the developing fruit. Pupation, as in all Phyllocnistis species, in a chamber at the end of the corridor, under an overturned
part of the leaf margin. The
mines on leaves and a fruit are also illustrated in British
leafminers. |
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Mainly on Citrus species, but also on other genera of the
same family (Rutaceae). The species seems to be native to Asia,
but is found now in all regions where Citrus species are
cultivated, and is a very serious pest there Bladmineerders van Europa). A tropical species which is not yet a British species.
Most specimens are intercepted at points of entry. It is a pest
of commercial citrus orchards.
Found and reared from Citrus from a garden centre in Burford, Oxfordshire by Robert Homan (British leafminers - Newsletter 26) and Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. (124) 2012 :279-281.
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Phyllocnistis
citrella Stainton, 1856 [Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae]. |
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