Aconitum monkshood
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Aconitum by Hans Roskam click here)
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a small, irregular, full depth mine; larva with thoracic feet and sclerotised head:: Cnephasia incertana
1b mine larger, upper surface; larva a maggot => 2
1c galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a small, irregular, full depth mine; larva with thoracic feet and sclerotised head:: Cnephasia incertana
1b mine larger, upper surface; larva a maggot => 2
1c galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
2a corridor from begin to end: Phytomyza aconitella
2b mine at least partly a blotch => 3
3a blotch, without a trace of a preceding corridor; frass dispersed equally over the mine: Phytomyza aconiti
3b blotch, preceded by a corridor that lies mostly in the tip of the leaf (the corridor may be overrun by the later blotch, but should be recognisable by the frass pattern); most frass concentrated in the first, apical part of the mine: Phytomyza aconitophila