7 May 2008

Willem Ellis is currently updating the Nederlandse bladmineerders website to include English as well as Dutch. In the course of that process, most of his Diptera species pages have been moved to a new subfolder. This action caused most of the external hyperlinks to Diptera species pages on this website to break. All of the links to on this website to Diptera species pages have now been updated to restore these links.

In the course of updating the external links from the Diptera species pages on this website, additional links to pages with images (where they exist) on Nederlandse bladmineerders and British Leafminers have been added to the mine description.

31 March 2008

Authorship updated to 'Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds' in recognition of their invaluable input to this project.

27 March 2008

References to the original name, junior synonyms and subsequent combinations have been added for all Lepidoptera species where a match was found in The Global Lepidoptera Names Index [accessed 20-7 March, 2008]. These references have not yet verified against the original publications cited.

20 March 2008

All 24 Hymenptera species pages have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

14 March 2008

All 30 Coleoptera species pages have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

14 March 2008

The remining 47 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Stigmella lemniscella to Xenolechia aethiops) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

A header graphic has been added and the background colour changed to pale green.

5 March 2008

The known British chalcidoid parasitoids of all British non-dipterous miners have been added and the lists of associations have been updated. Unless otherwise stated these parasitoid/miner associations are taken from John Noyes' Universal Chalcidoid Database. All of the parasitoids and their associated host miners occur in Britain. The associations themselves, however, may not be British records.

2 March 2008

A further 25 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Stigmella aceris to Stigmella lapponica) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

Hosts of non-dipterous miners outside of Britain (where known) have been added to the 'Key' pages'.

22 January 2008

A further 25 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Phylloporia bistrigella to Stephensia brunnichella) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

External links from the 'Key' pages to the relavant page in UKMoths (where is exists) have been added for all Lepidoptera species.

12 January 2008

A further 54 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Phyllonorycter acerifoliella to Phyllonorycter viminetorum) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

5 January 2008

A further 40 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Mompha lacteella to Phyllocnistis xenia) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

1 January 2008

A further 44 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Elophila nymphaeata to Lyonetia prunifoliella) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

27 December 2007

A further 80 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Coleotechnites piceaella to Elachista utonella) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each species.

24 December 2007

Links have been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for every species of Diptera.

15 December 2007

A further 59 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Coleophora conyzae to Coleophora wockeella) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each of the above 59 species of Lepidoptera.

30 November 2007

Some 80 Lepidoptera species pages (alphabetically by genus and species from Acrocercops brongniardella to Coleophora conspicuella) have been updated to include (where known) descriptions of mines, larvae, pupae, time of year and distribution in Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere, bringing together information from British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea. Links have also been created to the appropriate NBN Gateway grid map (where it exists) for each of the above 80 species of Lepidoptera.

20 November 2007

Species pages have been created for all mining Coleoptera. These species pages include a list of the known host genera and species recorded in Britain and elsewhere plus links to British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders and Fauna Europaea and links to search for species using Google and Google Scholar. Links from the host plant keys for the above Coleoptera species have also been created.

13 November 2007

Species pages have been created for all mining Hymenoptera. These species pages include a list of the known host genera and species recorded in Britain and elsewhere plus links to British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders and Fauna Europaea and links to search for species using Google and Google Scholar. Links from the host plant keys for the above Hymenoptera species have also been created.

12 November 2007

Species pages have been created for all remaining mining Lepidoptera. These species pages include a list of the known host genera and species recorded in Britain and elsewhere plus links to British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea and links to search for species using Google and Google Scholar. Links from the host plant keys for the above Lepidoptera species have also been created.

30 October 2007

Species pages have been created for all mining Lepidoptera alphabetically by genus from Elachista adscitella to Elachista utonella. These species pages include a list of the known host genera and species recorded in Britain and elsewhere plus links to British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea and links to search for species using Google and Google Scholar. Links from the host plant keys for the above Lepidoptera species have also been created.

20 September 2007

Species pages have been created for all mining Lepidoptera alphabetically by genus from Acrocercops brongniardella to Ectoedemia weaveri. These species pages include a list of the known host genera and species recorded in Britain and elsewhere plus links to British Leafminers, Nederlandse bladmineerders, UKMoths and Fauna Europaea and links to search for species using Google and Google Scholar. Links from the host plant keys for the above Lepidoptera species have also been created.

Checklists for all known British non-dipterous miners have been created with links to the Lepidoptera species pages. The Diptera checklists have been updated to include original combinations as well as synonyms.

3 September 2007

Host common name index updated for hosts A - Z.

28 August 2007

Lists of the non-dipterous leaf-miners recorded in Britain added for all host genera from F - Z.Additional host genera pages added for non-dipterous miners and host scientific name index updated.

21 August 2007

Lists of the non-dipterous leaf-miners recorded in Britain added for all host genera from A - E. Additional host genera pages added for non-dipterous miners and host scientific name index updated.

Test site renamed as 'The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects' by Brian Pitkin and Colin Plant.

11 August 2007

Lists of the non-dipterous leaf-miners recorded in Britain are being added under the relevant host genus. The host associations are from the British Leafminers website, combining the lists compiled as a precursor to AIDGAP keys TO LEAF MINERS by Brian Pitkin and Colin Plant and those cited on the individual species pages by Rob Edmunds.

The lists include external links (where they exist) to relevant pages on other websites. The linked pages on the British Leafminers and Nederlandse bladmineerders websites usually include one or more images of a mine. Together these linked pages should provide a means of identifying the mines of the majority (>70%) of the known non-dipterous leaf-miners recorded in Britain.

The linked pages on Fauna Europaea do not include images, but do include classification, synonymy and distribution in Europe and elsewhere.

1 July 2007

Test version was launched as 'The leaf and stem mines of British flies' by Brian Pitkin.