Dorycnium canary clover
Incl. Bonjeania
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Dorycnium by Hans Roskam click here)Dichotomous table for leafminers
Dichotomous table for leafminers
2a older larvae live free among spun leaves; no egg shell visible where the mine started => 3
2b larvae mine all their life; at the start of the mine an upper-surface or lower-surface egg shell => 4
3a larva dark in colour: Aproaerema anthyllidella
3b larva whitish, with red length lines: Syncopacma cincticulella
4a upper-surface blotch, without a trace of a preceding gallery: Leucoptera lotella
4b mine starts as a gallery => 5
5a gallery from start to end, descending down to the stem: Trifurcula josefklimeschi
5b the gallery widens to a clear blotch => 6
6a pupa usually in the mine; larva: thorax dorsally with at either side 10, 10 and 8 setae, resp.: Trifurcula eurema
6b pupation outside the mine; larva: thorax dorsally with at either side 13, 11 en 9 setae, resp.: Trifurcula cryptella
7a larva in a helicoidal case; opening in the mine irregular and relatively large: Apterona helicoidella
7b larva in a more or less straight case; opening small, neatly round => 8
8a pistol case, with a large pallium => 9
8b composite leaf case => 10
9a case ochreous yellow; pallium with a pair of winglike extensions: Coleophora vicinella
9b case black; pallium homogenous: Coleophora spumosella
10a case remarkably long and slender, composed of 7-9 leaf fragments: Coleophora bilineatella
10b case more compact, made out of less fragments => 11
11a case almost flat, composed of leaf fragments perpendicular to the long axis: Coleophora squamella (paragenistae)
11b case not that extremely flat, leaf fragments placed obliquely => 12
12a mouth opening more or less laterally placed => 13
12b mouth opening normal => 14
13a case very strongly arched: Coleophora acrisella
13b case almost straight: Coleophora medelichensis
14a mouth angle ≥ 45°: Coleophora squamella
14b mouth angle 40-45°: Coleophora congeriella
Not included in the key: Coleophora discordella (error?), ononidella (error?), oriolella (no leafminer), valesianella (error?).