Thymus L.
(thymes)

Interactions where Thymus is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see '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
		is associate of			Cathormiocerus maritimus	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Broad-Nosed Weevils (Entiminae), Morris, M.G., 1997	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cathormiocerus maritimus/	Cathormiocerus maritimus	a weevil					Plant / associate			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes								is associated with
		has sap sucked by			Aethus flavicornis	a shieldbug	Hemiptera: Cydnidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Cydnidae/Aethus flavicornis/	Aethus flavicornis	a shieldbug					Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes								sucks sap of
leaf (at shoot tip) (live)		live leaf (at shoot tip) is grazed by adult			Chrysolina americana	Rosemary Leaf-beetle, Rosemary Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	RHS Gardening For All, RHS	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Chrysolina americana/	Chrysolina americana	rosemary leaf-beetle, rosemary beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes		live	leaf (at shoot tip)				(5-6,9-early 4)	adult grazes on live leaf (at shoot tip)
leaf		leaf is galled by			Aceria thomasi	a gall mite	Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Trombidiformes/Eriophyidae/Aceria thomasi/	Aceria thomasi	a gall mite					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			leaf					causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Longitarsus obliteratus	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus obliteratus/	Longitarsus obliteratus	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			leaf		Minor			larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by adult			Longitarsus obliteratus	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus obliteratus/	Longitarsus obliteratus	a flea beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			leaf		Minor			adult grazes on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by larva			Chrysolina americana	Rosemary Leaf-beetle, Rosemary Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	RHS Gardening For All, RHS	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Chrysolina americana/	Chrysolina americana	rosemary leaf-beetle, rosemary beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes		live	leaf				(2-early 5)	larva grazes on live leaf
root		root is grazed by larva			Longitarsus obliteratoides	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	New British Beetles: species not in Joy’s practical handbook, Hodge, P.J. & Jones, R.A., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus obliteratoides/	Longitarsus obliteratoides	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			root		Sole			larva grazes on root
root		root is grazed by adult			Longitarsus obliteratoides	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	New British Beetles: species not in Joy’s practical handbook, Hodge, P.J. & Jones, R.A., 1995	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus obliteratoides/	Longitarsus obliteratoides	a flea beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			root					adult grazes on root
root		root is parasitised by underground tuber			Orobanche alba	Thyme Broomrape, Red Broomrape	Lamiales: Orobanchaceae	Flora of the British Isles, Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2), Stace, C., 1997	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Orobanche alba/	Orobanche alba	thyme broomrape, red broomrape		underground	tuber		Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			root		Major			underground tuber parasitises root
root (dead)		dead root is decayed by fruitbody			Marasmiellus carneopallidus	a parachute	Agaricales: Omphalotaceae	Notes and Records (Jan 2011), Henrici, A., 2011	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Omphalotaceae/Marasmiellus carneopallidus/	Marasmiellus carneopallidus	a parachute				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes		dead	root					fruitbody is saprobic on dead root
shoot tip		shoot tip is galled by			Aceria thomasi	a gall mite	Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Trombidiformes/Eriophyidae/Aceria thomasi/	Aceria thomasi	a gall mite					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			shoot tip					causes gall of shoot tip
stem		stem is galled by larva			Squamapion atomarium	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Squamapion atomarium/	Squamapion atomarium	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Thymus/	Thymus	thymes			stem					larva causes gall of stem

Thymus (thymes) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

LAMIACEAE
(dead-nettles, mints and scented herbs)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Author & Year	Title	Source
RHS	RHS Gardening For All	www.rhs.org.uk/index.asp
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985	Flora of the British Isles	3 edition, 688pp, Cambridge University Press
Henrici, A., 2011	Notes and Records (Jan 2011)	Vol 12 (1)
Hodge, P.J. & Jones, R.A., 1995	New British Beetles: species not in Joy’s practical handbook	1 edition, 175pp, British Entomological and Natural History Society
Kevan D.K., 1967	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)	EMM Vol 103: 83-110.
Morris, M.G., 1990	Orthocerous Weevils	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Morris, M.G., 1997	Broad-Nosed Weevils (Entiminae)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17a, 106pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles	Wayside & Woodland Series, 1959 edition, 436pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Stace, C., 1997	New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2)	Second edition edition, 1130pp, Cambridge University Press
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Thymus polytrichus Wild Thyme				Species	1 subtaxa	17 trophisms
Thymus pulegioides Large Thyme, Large Garden Thyme				Species		2 trophisms
Thymus serpyllum Breckland Thyme				Species		1 trophisms
Thymus vulgaris Garden Thyme				Species		1 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Thymus (thymes)
Family	LAMIACEAE (dead-nettles, mints and scented herbs)
Order	LAMIALES (dead-nettles, eye-brights, foxgloves and speedwells)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Thymus is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Lamiaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Thymus (thymes)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Pigott, C.D.		The geographical distribution of the British species of Thymus, and a brief illustration of the application of distributional studies in ecology	Dandy, J.E. The Watsonian vice-county system, 9pp, The Study of the Distribution of British Plants

Thymus (thymes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Thymus (thymes):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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