GYPSOPHILA. Baby's-breath and Gypsophila. [Caryophyllaceae]

Eight species of Gypsophila are recorded in Britain. All are introduced and include Annual Baby's-breath (G. elegans) and Baby's-breath (G. paniculata).

The British anthomyiid Delia echinata is recorded on Gypsophila by Ackland in Chandler (1978), but it is not clear whether this host association is British or Foreign (see AGROSTEMMA).

The polyphagous agromyzid Liriomyza huidobrensis and Liriomyza trifolii have been recorded in quarantine in Britain (Pitkin and Plant in British leafminers).

Elsewhere the agromyzids Amauromyza flavifrons, Liriomyza bryoniae, Liriomyza huidobrensis, Liriomyza sativa and Liriomyza trifolii; the anthomyiid Delia echinata, and the drosophilid Scaptomyza graminum are recorded mining Gypsophila.

No non-Diptera miners are recorded on Gypsophila in Britain.

A key to the European miners, based on characteristics of the mines, immature stages and where relevant the larval cases, recorded on Gypsophila is provided in Bladmineerders van Europa . This includes Amauromyza flavifrons, Delia echinata, Liriomyza bryoniae and Scaptomyza graminum, but not Liriomyza gypsophilae, Liriomyza huidobrensis, Liriomyza sativa and Liriomyza trifolii, Coleophora nubivagella, Coleophora repentis, Coleophora strutiella, Coleophora vicinella.