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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
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Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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LIGUSTICUM.
Scots Lovage. [Apiaceae]
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Scots
Lovage (L. scoticum) is the only species of Ligusticum
recorded in Britain.
Only one British miner is recorded on Ligusticum.
A key to the European miners recorded on Ligusticum 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 Ligusticum
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1 > Leaf-miner: A large blotch, yellow or brown, preceded by a short
corridor that in the end mostly is completely overrun. Generally
several larvae share a mine. Especially in fresh mines the green
primary and secondary feeding lines are well visible. Pupation outside
the mine. Puparium yellow. |
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Euleia heraclei pupariria
Image: © Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa) |
Polyphagous. On numerous genera of Apiaceae and possibly some Asteraceae, including Ammi, in Britain
and elsewhere. Throughout the British Isles. Also recorded in
the Republic of Ireland and most of the Palaearctic region, as
far east as Afghanistan.
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Euleia
heraclei (Linnaeus, 1758) [Diptera: Tephritidae]. |
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