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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
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Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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CORRIGIOLA.
Strapwort. [Caryophyllaceae]
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Strapwort
(C. littoralis) is the only native species of Corrigiola
recorded in Britain. It is protected under Schedule 8 of the Wildlife
and Countryside Act, 1981.
Only one British miner is recorded on Corrigiola.
A key to the European mines recorded on Corrigiola is provided in Bladmineerders van Europa.
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Key for the identification of the known mines of British
insects (Diptera and non-Diptera) recorded on Corrigiola
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1 > Leaf-miner: The
mine starts as a long, narrow, winding corridor running towards
the midrib, widening to a blotch. Usually upper-surface, but in
small leaves also full-depth parts may occur. The blotch has broad
lobes; in their ends most frass is accumulated in the form of green
patches or clouds. Sometimes several larvae share mine. Pupation
usually in the soil, less often in the leaf (and then generally
not in the mine itself but in a small separated mine, that may even
be made in the petiole). |
Mine of Scaptomyza graminum on Cerastium glomeratum
Image: © Jean-Yves Baugnée (Bladmineerders van Europa) |
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On
? Amaranthus, Cerastium, Lychnis, Myosoton, Nasturtium, Silene, Stellaria, Atriplex,
? Anthyllis, ? Lupinus,
? Medicago, ? Montia and ? Antirrhinum, but not yet on Corrigiola, in Britain.
On Amaranthus, Lepidium, Moricandia, ? Rorippa, Agrostemma, Arenaria, Cerastium, Corrigiola, Cucubalus, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Moehringia, Myosoton, Polycarpon, Saponaria, Silene, Spergularia, Stellaria, Vaccaria, Viscaria, Atriplex, Beta, Chenopodium, Obione, Salicornia, Spinacia, Anthyllis, Lupinus, Medicago, Allium, Montia, Portulaca and Antirrhinum elsewhere. Widespread in Britain and continental Europe.
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Scaptomyza
graminum (Fallén, 1823) [Diptera: Drosophilidae]. |
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