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(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by
Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
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LURONIUM.
Floating Water-plantain. [Alismataceae]
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One
species of Luronium is recorded in Britain. Floating Water-plantain
(L. natans). The BSBI provide a downloadable plant crib for Luronium, Baldella and Alisma.
No
miners are recorded on Luronium in Britain.
Elsewhere
one British non-Diptera miner, Bagous
alismatis, is recorded on Luronium.
A key to the European miners recorded on Luronium 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 Luronium
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1 > Leaf-miner: The
mine starts with a broad corridor. Later a broad blotch, not determined
by heavy veins. The mine is full depth and very transparent. The
colour in the end is reddish-brown, making mined plants very conspicuous,
even from a distance. Frass irregular. Often several larvae in a
mine.
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On Alisma plantago-aquatica, but not yet on Luronium, in Britain plus Luronium
natans and Sagittaria sagittifolia, elsewhere. Widespread
in Britain and continental Europe. Also recorded in the Republic
of Ireland.
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Bagous
alismatis (Marsham, 1802) [Coleoptera: Curculionidae].
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