The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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HELIOTROPIUM. Heliotropes. [Boraginaceae]


Four species of Heliotropium are recorded in Britain. All are introduced and include European Turn-sole (H. europaeum).

No dipterous miners are recorded on Heliotropium in Britain.

Elsewhere the polyphagous agromyzid Liriomyza strigata is recorded mining Heliotropium.

No non-dipterous miners are recorded on Heliotropium in Britain.


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