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SCROPHULARIA. Figworts. [Scrophulariaceae]

Eight species of Scrophularia are recorded in Britain. These include the native Water Figwort (S. auriculata), Common Figwort (S. nodosa), Balm-leaved Figwort (S. scorodonia) and Green Figwort (S. umbrosa). Only one dipterous miner, the agromyzid Amauromyza verbasci, is recorded on Scrophularia in Britain. The agromyzid Napomyza scrophulariae is recorded feeding in both seed heads and stems of Digitalis pupurea and possibly Scrophularia nodosa, Verbascum and Mentha in Britain. Elsewhere the polyphagus agromyzids Amauromyza verbasci, Chromatomyia horticola, Liriomyza bryoniae and Liriomyza strigata are recorded mining Scrophularia. One non-dipterous miner is recorded on Scrophularia in Britain (see below).

Key for the identification of the known Diptera mines in Britain.

1> Larva forming a linear-blotch mine with several mines often occurring in the same leaf. Puparium orange-yellow     Mines of Amauromyza verbasci on Verbascum thapsus. Images: Brian Pitkin Amauromyza (Trilobomyza) verbasci (Bouché) [Agromyzidae].

Non-dipterous miners recorded on Scrophularia in Britain Apteropeda orbiculata (Marsham, 1802) Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae

Last updated 29-Jul-2008  Brian Pitkin

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