Host plants
Images and reliability of miner/host associations
Images
Currently the leaf mines of only 143 species (all Diptera) are illustrated. As far as possible these images are of freshly collected mines.Full-colour images of species of host plant are provided for 199 of the host plant genera, although not all are known host plants of fly miners in Britain.
All images are the copyright of the relevant photographer. Reliability of miner/host associations
Images and reliability of miner/host associations
Unfortunately host records in the literature are frequently ambiguous, I have assumed for the purposes of this account that records in local faunas (e,g, Stubbs & Chandler, 1978; Robbins, 1983, 1989 and 1991) refer to British records, unless stated to the contrary, although this may not necessarily be the case.
Some published records are considered here to be erroneous due to either misidentification of the host or the miner. Such errors are noted in text.
Miner/host associations cited here from the literature can be considered most reliable if represented by voucher specimens of both the mines and reared adults, as is sometimes the case in The Natural History Museum's collection (which includes the important collections of leaf- and stem-mines of Hering, Emmett, Spencer and Parmenter).