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Centaurea solstitialis L. (Yellow Star-thistle)

Suggested Literature

Centaurea solstitialis 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)
Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Centaurea solstitialis:

Photos may have adult Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
may have adult Cryptocephalus violaceus - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Foreign Cox, M.L., 2007
Photos capitulum capitulum is galled by larva Urophora quadrifasciata - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Acanthiophilus helianthi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988

Centaurea solstitialis 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)
Centaurea
(knapweeds and star-thistles)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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