Santolina lavender cotton, holy flax
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a mine a corridor, with black frass grains; larva a maggot: Chromatomyia cf syngenesiae
1b mine a more or less blotchy fleck mine, (almost) without frass; larva with feet and a chitinised head => 2
1c gallen etc => Tabellen voor alle parasieten per soort
2a larva mines from a portable tube => 3
2b larva lives free, or mines from a spinning attached to the plant => 4
3a larva in a tubular silken case: Coleophora albicella
3b larva in a lobe case, covered with a large number of mined leaves: Coleophora santolinella
4a the larve lives free, without spinning, under the leaf: Bucculatrix santolinella
4b the larve works from a spinning => 5
5a larve in a silken tube, connected to a globular cocoon that is attached to the plant: Isidiella divitella
5b larva in a spinning, or silken tube, at ground level: Sophronia humerella