Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae

Lycaenids

Young larve sometimes bite a hole in the epidermis, to eat leaf tissue from that entrance. The result is a fleck mine, not unlike that made by Coleophoridae. The hole, however, is not neatly round, but rather untidy, often torn in and asymmetrical.

23/11/2014

Last modified 13.iv.2021