Vicia Vetch
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Vicia by Hans Roskam click here)
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a tentiform mine => 2
1b blotch, or something between blotch and corridor => 3
1c slender corridor from start to end => 12
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a tentiform mine => 2
1b blotch, or something between blotch and corridor => 3
1c slender corridor from start to end => 12
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
2a mine strongly inflated, almost the entire leaflet folding over it; upper surface mottled white; pupa: cremaster with two pairs of thorns that are set close together; especially the outer pair stout: Phyllonoryter nigrescentella
2b mine weakly inflated, its upper surface largely green; cremaster with two pairs of thread-thin spines, not set close together: Phyllonoryter insignitella
3a ‘corridor-blotch’; larva with chitinised head; larvae later live free between spun leaves => 4
3b clear blotch, may have a narrow initial corridor; larva a maggot, remaining in the mine till pupation => 7
4a larva dark, limits between the thoracic segments whitish: Aproaerema anthyllidella
4b larva entirely dark => 5
5a larva: pinacula colourless (only the base of the setae black): Cnephasia incertana
5b pinacula black => 6
6a larva: segment 10 with an anal comb: Cnephasia asseclana
6b segment 10 without an anal comb: Cnephasia stephensiana
7a blotch without a trace of a preceding corridor: Agromyza viciae
7b blotch with an initial corridor => 8
8a initial corridors follows the leaf margin => 9
8b initial corridor independent of the leaf margin => 10
9a blotch full depth; frass in a few black lumps: Agromyza vicifoliae
9b blotch with a few full depth patches only; frass in small grains: Agromyza bicophaga
10a frass in coarse lumps; larva: cephalic skeleton of Agromyzinae-type => 11
10b frass in granules or strings; cephalic skeleton of Phytomyzinae-type: Liriomyza xanthocera
11a larva: rear spiraculum with 3 papillae: Agromyza nana
11b rear spiraculum with about 40 papillae: Agromya lathyri
12a puparium in the mine, in a, usually lower-surface, pupal chamber: Chromatomyia horticola
12b before pupation the mine is vacated through a semicircular exit slit => 13
13a frass in black strings: Liriomyza strigata
13b frass in a broad, green central band: Liriomyza congesta
Not included in the key: Coleophora colutella, craccella, ononidella, vibicella; Cosmopterix schmidiella; Liriomyza bryoniae, huidobrensis, pisivora, trifolii; Micrurapteryx gradatella; Phyllonorycter medicaginella; Phytoliriomyza variegata; Scaptomyza graminum.