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Blastobasis lignea Walsingham (a micro-moth)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Blastobasis lignea Imago 11 August 2005 Berks England 4
Blastobasis lignea Imago 7 August 2005 Berks England 2

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Agassiz, D., 2004 Cypress Trees and their Moths

Blastobasis lignea may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)
DITRYSIA
(the major suborder of moths)
BLASTOBASIDAE
(a family of micro-moths)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Blastobasis lignea is associated with:

Photos larva Taxomyia taxi - Yew Artichoke Gall (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) larva is predator of larva Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
Photos larva Taxomyia taxi - Yew Artichoke Gall (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) larva is predator of gall Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
Photos larva Taxus baccata - Yew (Taxaceae) larva mines leaf Robbins, R., 1990
Photos larva Taxus baccata - Yew (Taxaceae) larva grazes on leaf Robbins, R., 1990

Associated with Blastobasis lignea:

Blastobasis lignea may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

References

Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992 Plant Galls
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands

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