BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Medicago (medicks)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Species	Medicago arabica (L.) Hudson (Spotted Medick)		12			7
Species	Medicago lupulina L. (Black Medick)		20	14		13
Species	Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bertal (a medick)					1
Species	Medicago polymorpha L. (Toothed Medick)				1	4
Species	Medicago praecox DC. (Early Medick)				2
Species	Medicago sativa L. (Lucerne)	2	1			25

Suggested Literature

Medicago may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Medicago:

		is foodplant of larva	Sitona gemellatus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1997 Bullock, J.A., 1992
		is foodplant of larva	Sitona humeralis - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1997 Bullock, J.A., 1992
		is foodplant of larva	Sitona macularius - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1997
		is foodplant of larva	Sitona sulcifrons - Clover Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Bullock, J.A., 1992
		is foodplant of larva	Tychius junceus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Bullock, J.A., 1992
	bud (vegetative	bud (vegetative is foodplant of larva	Apion pisi - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1990 Bullock, J.A., 1992 [in late autumn]
	bud	bud is foodplant of larva	Apion filirostre - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1990 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	inflorescence	inflorescence is galled by larva	Contarinia medicaginis - a gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)		Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	leaf	leaf is mined by larva	Agromyza nana - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972 [a short linear mine which develops into a conspicuous white blotch on the midrib]
	leaf	leaf is grazed by larva	Hypera fuscocinerea - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	leaf	leaf is grazed by	Hypera meles - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002
	leaf	leaf is grazed by larva	Hypera postica - Clover Leaf Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	leaf	leaf is grazed by	Hypera punctata - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002
	root (white, rotting)	white, rotting root is decayed by grouped, thinly subiculate perithecium	Rosellinia necatrix - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	root (white, rotting)	white, rotting root is decayed by Dermatophora dematiaceous anamorph	Rosellinia necatrix - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	root	root is foodplant of larva	Sitona hispidulus - Clover Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)		Bullock, J.A., 1992
	seed (shrivelled, spore ball-filled)	shrivelled, spore ball-filled seed may be infected and damaged by sorus	Thecaphora deformans - a seed smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Glomosporiaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
	shoot	shoot is galled by larva	Dasineura ignorata (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)		Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	stem	stem may contain larva	Apion seniculus - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1990
	stem	stem may contain larva	Apion tenue - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae)		Morris, M.G., 1990 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	stem	stem is parasitised by haustorium	Cuscuta campestris - Yellow Dodder (Cuscutaceae)		Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985

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

References