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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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EROPHILA. Whitlowgrasses. [Brassicaceae]
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Three
species Erophila are recorded in Britain. All are native
and include Common Whitlowgrass (E.verna), Glabrous Whitlowgrass
(E. glabrescens) and Hairy Whitlowgrass (E. majuscula). The BSBI provide a downloadable plant crib for Brassicaceae and to Erophila.
Only on British miner is recorded on Erophila.
A key to the European miners recorded on Erophila is provided in Bladmineerders van Europa.
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Key for the identification of the known mines of British
insects (Diptera and non-Diptera) recorded on Erophila
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1 > Leaf-miner: Rather
small, untidy, full depth, often branched corridor, often close
to the leaf margin. Sides irregularly eaten out. Frass in a greyish-green
central line that is interrupted from time to time, sometimes partly
in strings. In times of rain the frass may run out and appear greenish.
Usually several mines in a leaf. The body is whitish; head greyish brown with Y-shaped lighter marking. Pronotum with a pair of brownish shields. The mandibles have two teeth. |
Mine
of Ceutorhynchus minutus on Raphanus sativus
Image: © Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa) |
Ceutorhynchus minutus larva, lateral
Image: © Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa) |
Polyphagous. On numerous genera and species of Brassicaceae, Capparaceae, Resedaceae and Tropaeolaceae, including Cochlearia, but not yet on Erophila, in Britain and Erophila elsewhere. Widespread in Britain and continental
Europe. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland.
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Ceutorhynchus
minutus (Marsham, 1802) [Coleoptera: Curculionidae]. |
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