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Two
species of Aethionema, Persian Candytuft (A. gradiflorum)
and Burnt Candtuft (A. saxatile), are recorded in Britain.
Both are introduced.
No Diptera miners are recorded on Aethionema in Britain.
Elsewhere
the polyphagous agromyzids Liriomyza
bryoniae and Chromatomyia
horticola and the polyphagous drosophilid Scaptomyza
flava are recorded mining Aethionema.
No
non-Diptera miners are recorded on Aethionema in Britain.
A key to the European miners, based on characteristics of the mines, immature stages and where relevant the larval cases, recorded on Aethionema is provided in Bladmineerders
van Europa. This includes Plutella xylostella, Phyllotreta
nemorum, Ceutorrhynchus minutus, Chromatomyia
horticola, Liriomyza
bryoniae, Liriomyza xanthocera and Scaptomyza
flava
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