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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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MISOPATES.
Weasel's-snout. [Scrophulariaceae]
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Two
species of Misopates are recorded in Britain. These include
the native Weasel's-snout (M. orontium).
Only one British miners is recorded on Misopates.
A key to the European miners recorded on Linaria including Cymbalaria, Kickxia and Misopates 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 Misopates
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1 > Leaf-miner: Mine linear, whitish, both upper and lower surface. Pupation internal,
at the end of the mine with the anterior spiracles projecting through
the epidermis (Spencer, 1976:
433).
Upper-surface,
less often lower-surface corridor. Frass in isolated grains. Pupation
within the mine, usually in a lower-surface puparial chamber.
A long whitish upper surface corridor, which eventually goes lower surface. |
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Two
highly polyphagous species of Chromatomyia, with indistinguishable
mines, have been recorded in Britain. These are syngenesiae (Hardy) and horticola (Goureau) which can only be distinguished by the male genitalia. Both species are widespread in Britain and elsewhere, although syngenesiae is almost entirely restricted to Asteraceae. Records on Asteraceae not based on examination of male genitalia are treated in this account as Chromatomyia 'atricornis'.
Chromatomyia horticola is recorded on 160 plant genera in 31 families, of which 55 plant
genera in 19 families, including Misopates, in Britain.
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Chromatomyia
horticola (Goureau, 1851) [Diptera: Agromyzidae].
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