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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MORICANDIA. Violet Cabbage. [Brassicaceae]


Only one species of Moricandia, Violet Cabbage (M. arvensis), is recorded in Britain. It is introduced.

No dipterous miners are recorded on Moricandia in Britain.

Elsewhere the agromyzids Liriomyza strigata and Phytomyza rufipes and the drosophilids Scaptomyza flava and Scaptomyza graminum are recorded mining Moricandia.

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


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