Colchicum autumn crocus, naked ladies
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Colchicum by Hans Roskam click here)Dichotomous table for leafminers
10a larva: pinacula colourless (the bases of the setae themselves are black) : Cnephasia incertana
10b pinacula black: Cnephasia stephensiana
1c galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Dichotomous table for leafminers
10a larva: pinacula colourless (the bases of the setae themselves are black) : Cnephasia incertana
10b pinacula black: Cnephasia stephensiana
1c galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Hering (1957a) includes in his key a mine of the tortricid Aphelia paleana (Hübner, 1793). This is an extremely polyphagous species, and nowhere in the literature it is described as regular miner. The mine that Hering described must have been a fortuitous phenomenon.