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AEGOPODIUM. Ground-elder. [Apiaceae]

The introduced Ground-elder (A. podagraria) is the only species of Aegopodium recorded in Britain. Three dipterous miners, the agromyzids Phytomyza angelicae, Phytomyza angelicastri and Phytomyza obscurella, are recorded on Aegopodium in Britain. Elsewhere the agromyzids Phytomyza angelicae, Phytomyza angelicastri, Phytomyza aquilegiae, Phytomyza obscurella and the tephritids Cryptaciura rotundiventris and Euleia heraclei are recorded mining Aegopodium. No non-dipterous miners are recorded on Aegopodium in Britain. Elsewhere one non-dipterous miner, Epermenia chaerophyllella, is recorded on Aegopodium (see below).

Key for the identification of the known Diptera mines in Britain.

1> Blotch mine. An upper surface primary blotch with several larvae feeding together; the blotch is greenish when fresh but becomes yellowish with age. Puparium black Mine of Phytomyza angelicae on Aquilegia sylvestris. Image: Brian Pitkin Phytomyza angelicae Kaltenbach [Agromyzidae]. -> Linear mine which may become a blotch. 2. 2> An irregular upper surface linear mine, which can widen and become almost blotch like at end. Puparium black Mine of Phytomyza angelicastri on Angelica. Image: Brian Pitkin Phytomyza angelicastri Hering [Agromyzidae]. -> Mine irregularly linear, whitish-green normally adjoining margin of leaf, when old brownish. Puparium shining black Mine of Phytomyza obscurella on Aegopodium podagraria. Image: Brian Pitkin Phytomyza obscurella Fallén [Agromyzidae].

British non-dipterous miners recorded on Aegopodium elsewhere Epermenia chaerophyllella (Goeze, 1783) Lepidoptera: Epermeniidae

Last updated 30-Jul-2008  Brian Pitkin

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