Salvia clary
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Salvia by Hans Roskam click here)
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a fleck mine => 2
1b full depth corridor or blotch; larva with chitinised head=> 5
1c upper- or lower-surface corridor or blotch => 11
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a fleck mine => 2
1b full depth corridor or blotch; larva with chitinised head=> 5
1c upper- or lower-surface corridor or blotch => 11
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
2a larva in a helicoidal case; hole in the mine untidy, angular: Apterona helicoidella
2b case in principle tubular; hole exactly round => 3
3a black sheath case: Coleophora albitarsella
3b coarsew lobe base: Coleophora virgatella
3c composite leaf case => 4
4a case composed of 2-3 leaf fragments: Coleophora salviella
4b case composed of c. 15 leaf fragments: Coleophora onopordiella
5a oviposition site covered by a shining black drop of hardened secretion: Trachys quercicola
5b no such drop => 6
6a larva without feet: Orthochaetes insignis
6b larva with thoracic feet but without prolegs => 7
6b larva with thoracic feet but without prolegs => 8
7a adult bronze black: Dibolia schillingii
7b adult green or bronze green: Dibolia femoralis
8a “leaf miner” on Salvia triloba, Rhodos; mine not described: Ramphis libanoticus
8b narrow corridor, containing much frass, starting at an egg shell => 9
8c mine different, without frass, not beginning at an egg shell; mine associated with a silken tube under the leaf => 10
9a on Salvia lavandulifolia, west mediterranean: Glaucolepis salvifoliae
9b on Salvia triloba, east mediterranean: Glaucolepis trilobella
10a on Salvia officinalis: Vulcaniella cognatella
10b on Salvia austriaca, nemorosa, pratensis: Vulcaniella extremella
10c on Salvia aethiopis, sclarea: Vulcaniella grandiferella
10d on Salvia grandiflora: Vulcaniella karadaghella
10e on Salvia ringens: Vulcaniella klimeschi
11a puparium in the mine, in a, usually lower-surface, pupal chamber; frass in discrete grains: Chromatomyia horticola
11b pupation outside the mine; frass mostly in string or pearl chains => 12
12a pinnately branched corridor, its main branch overlying the midrib; frass in strings: Liriomyza strigata
12b corridor not pinnate, free from the midrib; frass in grains or pearl chains => 13
13a corridor, of which the middle part is strongly contorted, creating a secondary blotch: Phytomyza salviae
13b corridor, never forming a secondary blotch: Phytomyza scotina
Not included in the key: Amauromyza labiatarum (probably xenophagy); Dibolia cryptocephala; Liriomyza trifolii