(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
DYSPHANIA. Mexican-tea. [Chenopodiaceae]
Chenopodium ambrosioides is treated as Dysphania ambrosioides (Mexican-tea) by Stace (2010).
No miners are recorded on this host plant in Britain.
Elsewhere one species, Liriomyza huidobrensis, is recorded on this host plant. See also Liriomyza species in Glasshouses and/or Quarantine Interceptions.
A key to the European miners recorded on Dysphania is provided in Bladmineerders van Europa.