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Nuphar lutea (L.) Smith (Yellow Water-lily)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Nuphar lutea Plant 15 May 2005 Berks England 1
Nuphar lutea Plant 16 August 1975 West Sussex England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Nuphar lutea may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
NYMPHAEACEAE
(water-lilies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Nuphar lutea:

is foodplant of larva Donacia crassipes - Water-lily Reed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007
Bullock, J.A., 1992
flower flower may have adult Plateumaris sericea - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by often gregarious larva Hydromyza livens - a dung fly (Diptera: Scathophagidae) UK/Ireland Major Robbins, R., 1990 [a, usually straight and long, corridor, runnnig to the petiole; often several in a leaf.]
leaf (upper surface) leaf (upper surface) is grazed by adult Donacia crassipes - Water-lily Reed Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by larva Galerucella nymphaeae - Water-lily Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by imago Galerucella nymphaeae - Water-lily Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
pollen pollen is foodplant of adult Donacia sparganii - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007
pollen? pollen? is foodplant of adult Donacia dentata - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007

Nuphar lutea may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
NYMPHAEACEAE
(water-lilies)
Nuphar
(lesser water lilies)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands

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