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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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NYMPHOIDES.
Fringed Water-Lily. [Menyanthaceae]
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Only
one species of Nymphoides, the Fringed Water-lily (N.
peltata), is recorded in Britain. It is a native species.
Only one British miner is recorded on Nymphoides. |
Key for the identification of the known mines of British
insects (Diptera and non-Diptera) recorded on Nymphoides
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1 > Tunneler: The larvae of a number of species of Chironomidae
(non-biting midges) live in tunnels in decaying leaf sheaths under
water. Their tunnels are open at both ends, and the larvae feed
on particles they obtain from a water current they create in the
tunnels. They do not feed on tissues of their 'hostplant' and therefore
are not strictly miners. |
On ? Polygonum and ? Potamogeton, but not yet on Nymphoides, in Britain and Glyceria, Nuphar, Nymphoides and Potamogeton elsewhere. Widespread in continental Europe. Also
recorded in the Republic of Ireland.
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Cricotopus
trifasciatus (Meigen, 1813) [Diptera:
Chironomidae]. |
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