(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
DESMODIUM. Slender Tick-trefoil. [Fabaceae]
Only one species of Desmodium is recorded in Britain, the introduced Slender Tick-trefoil (D. varians).
No British miners have been recorded on Desmodium.
Elsewhere the agromyzid Liriomyza sativae is recorded mining Desmodium. See also Liriomyza species in Glasshouses and/or Quarantine Interceptions.