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Picris (ox-tongues)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Picris echioides L. (Bristly Ox-tongue) 12 15 6
Species Picris hieracioides L. (Hawkweed Ox-tongue) 10 10 11

Suggested Literature

Picris may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Picris:

capitulum capitulum may contain larva Trupanea amoena - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
leaf (base of midrib) leaf (base of midrib) may house puparium Ophiomyia cunctata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1976
Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf (midrib, lamina) leaf (midrib, lamina) is mined by larva Ophiomyia beckeri - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Foreign Spencer, K.A., 1976 [mine along midrib with short offshoots into leaf blade]
leaf (midrib, lamina) leaf (midrib, lamina) is mined by larva Ophiomyia cunctata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1976
Spencer, K.A., 1972 [white mine along midrib with offshoots into leaf blade]
leaf (midrib, lamina) leaf (midrib, lamina) is mined by larva Ophiomyia pulicaria - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [white mine along midrib with short offshoots into leaf blade]
leaf (petiole at base) leaf (petiole at base) may house puparium Ophiomyia pulicaria - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza marginella - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine both upper and lower surface, long, linear, conspicuously broad]
root root is parasitised by underground tuber Orobanche artemisiae-campestris - Oxtongue Broomrape (Orobanchaceae) Major Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985
Stace, C., 1997

Picris may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)

References

Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 Flora of the British Isles
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
Spencer, K.A., 1976 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark
Stace, C., 1997 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2)
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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