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I
am very grateful to many of my colleagues in the Department of Entomology
at The Natural History Museum, London who collected material with
or for me. In particular I thank John Chainey, Jenny Spence and
my wife Linda Pitkin.
I
am grateful to David and Diane Henshaw, Michael von Tschirnhaus
and the late Kenneth Spencer and for much interesting and informative
discussion on Agromyzidae;
to Mike Ackland for providing additional data on Anthomyiidae;
to Ian White for interesting and informative discussion on Tephritidae;
and to Paul Beuk who confirmed the identity of the leaf-mining Drosophilidae
on which many of the host records of this family are based. Any
errors or ommissions, however, are entirely my responsibility.
I
am grateful to Willem Ellis for permission to reproduce many images
of leaf-mines from his Nederlandse
bladmineerders website.
I
am grateful to Rob Edmunds for permission to reproduce the images
of mines of Phytomyza
bipunctata on Echinops sp. and Chromatomyia
periclymeni on Lonicera from the British
Leafminers website.
I
am grateful to Dominique Collins, Central
Science Laboratory, DEFRA
for permission to use images of mines of Liriomyza species
taken by Paul Seymour and for his generous help with information
on the hosts of the polyphagous pest species of Liriomyza.
I
am grateful to Stephen Compton for drawing my attention to the published
records of Chromatomyia
horticola and Scaptomyza
flava on Coincya wrightii
- Lundy Cabbage.
I
am grateful to my colleagues Marion Stafford and Alison Paul of
the Museum's Botany Department who identified (or verified my tentative
identifications) of some of the host-plants.
I
am grateful to my colleague John Noyes who made his Universal
Chalcidoid Database available as a Paradox database, which enabled
me to extract lists of all British Chalcidoids and their British
dipterous leaf- and stem-mining hosts tocreate the hyperlinks to
his excellent online database.
The
Professor Hering Memorial Fund, administered by The
British Entomological and Natural History Society, kindly provided
funds to purchase film in the early stages of the project.
To
all I extend my grateful thanks.
Brian
Pitkin
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