Erodium L’Hér.
(stork’s-bills)

Interactions where Erodium 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
		has sap sucked by			Arenocoris falleni	a squashbug	Hemiptera: Coreidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Coreidae/Arenocoris falleni/	Arenocoris falleni	a squashbug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills	?							sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by			Arenocoris waltlii	Breckland Leatherbug	Hemiptera: Coreidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Coreidae/Arenocoris waltlii/	Arenocoris waltlii	breckland leatherbug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills	?							sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by			Corizus hyoscyami	a rhopalid bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Corizus hyoscyami/	Corizus hyoscyami	a rhopalid bug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills	?							sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by			Liorhyssus hyalinus	Scentless Plant Bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Liorhyssus hyalinus/	Liorhyssus hyalinus	scentless plant bug					Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills								sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by nymph			Liorhyssus hyalinus	Scentless Plant Bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	The scent-less plant bug Liorhyssus hyalinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) - regular migrant or established British species, Judd, S., 2011	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Liorhyssus hyalinus/	Liorhyssus hyalinus	scentless plant bug				nymph	Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills					Sole			nymph sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by adult			Liorhyssus hyalinus	Scentless Plant Bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	The scent-less plant bug Liorhyssus hyalinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) - regular migrant or established British species, Judd, S., 2011	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Liorhyssus hyalinus/	Liorhyssus hyalinus	scentless plant bug				adult	Foodplant / sap sucker		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills					Major			adult sucks sap of
		bud has sap sucked by			Rhopalus parumpunctatus	a rhopalid bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Rhopalus (Rhopalus) parumpunctatus/	Rhopalus (Rhopalus) parumpunctatus	a rhopalid bug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills				bud				sucks sap of bud
		seed has sap sucked by			Rhopalus parumpunctatus	a rhopalid bug	Hemiptera: Rhopalidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Rhopalidae/Rhopalus (Rhopalus) parumpunctatus/	Rhopalus (Rhopalus) parumpunctatus	a rhopalid bug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills				seed				sucks sap of seed
		has sap sucked by adult			Megalonotus praetextatus	a ground bug	Hemiptera: Lygaeidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Lygaeidae/Megalonotus praetextatus/	Megalonotus praetextatus	a ground bug				adult	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills								adult sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by nymph			Megalonotus praetextatus	a ground bug	Hemiptera: Lygaeidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Lygaeidae/Megalonotus praetextatus/	Megalonotus praetextatus	a ground bug				nymph	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills								nymph sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by			Odontoscelis lineola	a shieldbug	Hemiptera: Scutelleridae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Scutelleridae/Odontoscelis (Odontoscelis) lineola/	Odontoscelis (Odontoscelis) lineola	a shieldbug					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills	?							sucks sap of
leaf		leaf is grazed by			Brachypera dauci	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	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					Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills	?		leaf					grazes on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia geranii var erodii	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia geranii var. erodii/	Ramularia geranii var. erodii	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Geraniales/Geraniaceae/Erodium/	Erodium	stork's-bills		live	leaf					colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Judd, S., 2011	The scent-less plant bug Liorhyssus hyalinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) - regular migrant or established British species	Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. Vol 24 (4): 227-234, Plate 16.
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
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.

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

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Erodium cicutarium Common Stork’s-bill				Species		4 trophisms
Erodium cicutarium agg. common stork’s-bill				Species aggregate		9 trophisms
Erodium malacoides Soft Stork’s-bill				Species		1 trophisms
Erodium moschatum Musk Stork’s-bill				Species		2 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

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

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Erodium (stork’s-bills)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Benoit, P.M.		Erodium

Erodium (stork’s-bills) 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 Erodium (stork’s-bills):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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