Erodium cicutarium agg.
(common stork’s-bill)

Interactions where Erodium cicutarium agg. is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		may have adult			Cryptocephalus fulvus	a leaf beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus fulvus/	Cryptocephalus fulvus	a leaf beetle				adult	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill							(5-10)	adult may be found on
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Brachypera dauci	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Brachypera dauci/	Brachypera dauci	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by			Limobius borealis	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Limobius borealis/	Limobius borealis	a weevil					Foodplant / open feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill			leaf					grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Limobius mixtus	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Limobius mixtus/	Limobius mixtus	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill			leaf		Sole			larva grazes on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is mined by larva (early)			Aricia agestis	Brown Argus	Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Aricia agestis/	Aricia agestis	brown argus				larva (early)	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill	?	live	leaf					larva (early) mines live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by larva (later)			Aricia agestis	Brown Argus	Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lycaenidae/Aricia agestis/	Aricia agestis	brown argus				larva (later)	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill	?	live	leaf					larva (later) grazes on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous colony			Peronospora erodii	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora erodii/	Peronospora erodii	a downy mildew		hypophyllous	colony		Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill		live	leaf					hypophyllous colony parasitises live leaf
rootstock		rootstock of large well-grown plants may contain larva			Lixus vilis	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Lixus vilis/	Lixus vilis	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill			rootstock	large well-grown plants	Sole			larva feeds within rootstock of large well-grown plants
stem		stem of large well-grown plant may contain larva			Lixus vilis	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Lixus vilis/	Lixus vilis	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium cicutarium agg./	Erodium cicutarium agg.	common stork's-bill			stem	large well-grown plant	Sole			larva feeds within stem of large well-grown plant

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Morris, M.G., 2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Robbins, R., 1990	A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands	Benchmark Atlas Series, 1991? edition, 181pp, Warwickshire Museum Service

Erodium cicutarium agg. (common stork’s-bill) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species aggregate	Erodium cicutarium agg. (common stork’s-bill)
Genus	Erodium (stork’s-bills)
Family	GERANIACEAE (geraniums and storksbills)
Order	GERANIALES (geraniums and storksbills)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Erodium cicutarium agg. is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Geraniaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Erodium cicutarium agg. (common stork’s-bill)

Erodium cicutarium agg. (common stork’s-bill) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Erodium cicutarium agg. (common stork’s-bill):

Erodium
(stork’s-bills)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioImages

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