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Dialectica scalariella (Echium Leaf Miner)

Synonyms: Acrocercops scalariella; Gracilaria scalariella (homotypic); Gracillaria scalariella

Wikipedia Abstract

The echium leaf miner (Dialectica scalariella) is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found from France to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. Recently an imago was found in Great Britain. It was introduced in Australia for the biological control of the weed Echium plantagineum and has since spread to New Zealand. The pupa lies naked in the mine.
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Prey / Diet

Echium pininana (Tree Echium)[1]
Echium plantagineum (salvation jane)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0