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Cirsium oleraceum (L.) Scop. (Cabbage Thistle)

Suggested Literature

Cirsium oleraceum 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 Cirsium oleraceum:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
is foodplant of larva Terellia ruficauda - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
is foodplant of larva Terellia serratulae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis conura - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Xyphosia miliaria - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
leaf (upper surface) (windowed) windowed leaf (upper surface) is grazed by larva Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007 [larvae dorsally carry a cover of excrement]
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007

Cirsium oleraceum 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)
Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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