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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TRISETUM. Yellow oat grass. [Poaceae]


Two species of Trisetum are recorded in Britain. These include the native Yellow Oat-grass (T. flavescens).

Only one dipterous miner, Agromyza nigrella, is are recorded on Trisetum in Britain.

See DACTYLIS.

Elsewhere the agromyzids Agromyza nigrella, Cerodontha incisa, Chromatomyia fuscula, Chromatomyia nigra and Chromatomyia opacella are recorded mining Trisetum.

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

Elsewhere one non-dipterous leaf-miner, recorded on 'grasses' in Britain, is known on Trisetum.



British non-dipterous miners recorded on Trisetum elsewhere

Elachista freyerella (Hübner, 1825) Lepidoptera: Elachistidae UKMoths Nederlandse bladmineerders Fauna Europaea



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