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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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COMARUM. [Rosaceae]
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Potentilla
palustris is treated as Comarum palustre by Stace (2010).
Only one British miner is recorded on Comarum.
See POTENTILLA.
A key to the European miners recorded on Comarum 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 Comarum
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1 > Leaf-miner: Initially
a linear mine which later develops into a conspicuous blotch; frass
in two rows in linear section, scattered irregularly in the blotch
(Spencer, 1976: 134-5, fig.
237, as potentillae).
Corridor,
gradually and considerably widening towards the end. Frass in two
rows in the corridor part, further up dispersed irregularly. Pupation
outside the mine.
A short broad upper surface corridor leading to a long blotch between veins. |
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On Agrimonia, Filipendula, Fragaria, Geum, Potentilla, Rubus and Sanguisorba in Britain. On additional Rosaceae elsewhere.
Common and widespread throughout Britain. Also recorded in the
Republic of Ireland, Europe, Japan, U.S.A. and Canada.
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Agromyza idaeiana (Hardy, 1853) [Diptera: Agromyzidae]. |
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