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ANTENNARIA. Mountain Everlasting. [Asteraceae]

Only one species of Antennaria is recorded in Britain, Mountain Everlasting (A. dioica), and this is native. Only one dipterous miner, the agromyzid Ophiomyia gnaphalii, is recorded on Antennaria in Britain and elsewhere. Only one non-dipterous leaf-miner is recorded on Antennaria in Britain (see below).

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

1> An external stem mine on Gnaphalium sylvaticum (Spencer, 1972) or a leaf mine in basal leaves of Antennaria dioica (Bland, 1999). In the latter a single larva moves from leaf to leaf, each leaf with 2-4 broad diverging tracks extending rarely more than two-thirds of the length of the leaf from the petiole into the leaf lamina; frass concentrated in the petiolar part of the mine. Pupation in stem mine of Gnaphalium or among basal leaves of Antennaria. Ophiomyia gnaphalii Hering [Agromyzidae].

Non-dipterous miners recorded on Antennaria in Britain Scrobipalpa murinella (Duponchel 1843) Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae

Last updated 21-Mar-2008  Brian Pitkin

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