Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Kalama tricornis

Kalama tricornis (von Paula Schrank, 1801)

on Pilosella, etc.

Kalama tricornis

Haarlemmermeer, 15.viii.2022 © Laurens van der Linde

Kalama tricornis

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parasite

Larvae and imagines freely on the leaves.

host plants

Asteraceae, oligophagous

Artemisia campestris & subsp. maritima; Chrysanthemum; Hieracium; Jacobaea vulgaris; Pilosella officinarum; Senecio.

Also Cytisus scoparius; Echium vulgare; Heliotropium erosum; Mentha; Quercus; Rhododendron luteum; Thymus; Verbascum (Dioli, Maral ao).

distribution within Europe

PESI (2021).

synonyms

Dictyonota tricornis.

references

Dioli (1980a, 1997a), Kment & Baňař (2012a), Limonta, Dioli & Bonomelli (2004a), Malenovský, Baňař & Kment (2011a), Maral, Ulusoy, Bolu & Guilbert (2013a), Stehlík (2002a), Viskens, Bruers & Vercauteren (0000a), Wagner (1955a).

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