Nepeta L.
(cat-mints)

Interactions where Nepeta 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
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Longitarsus lycopi	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus lycopi/	Longitarsus lycopi	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Nepeta/	Nepeta	cat-mints			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by adult			Longitarsus lycopi	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus lycopi/	Longitarsus lycopi	a flea beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Nepeta/	Nepeta	cat-mints			leaf					adult grazes on leaf
leaf (stippled chlorotic)		stippled chlorotic leaf has sap sucked by			Eupteryx decemnotata	Ligurian Leafhopper	Hemiptera: Cicadellidae	Sage and rosemary crops in Southern England hit by leaf hopper, Malumphy, C., 2011	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Cicadellidae/Eupteryx decemnotata/	Eupteryx decemnotata	Ligurian leafhopper					Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Nepeta/	Nepeta	cat-mints		stippled chlorotic	leaf					sucks sap of stippled chlorotic leaf
stem (near a node)		stem (near a node) may house puparium			Ophiomyia labiatarum	a leaf-mining fly	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia labiatarum/	Ophiomyia labiatarum	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Nepeta/	Nepeta	cat-mints			stem (near a node)					puparium may be found in stem (near a node)
stem		stem is mined by larva			Ophiomyia labiatarum	a leaf-mining fly	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia labiatarum/	Ophiomyia labiatarum	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Lamiaceae/Nepeta/	Nepeta	cat-mints			stem					larva mines stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Kevan D.K., 1967	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)	Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 103: 83-110.
Malumphy, C., 2011	Sage and rosemary crops in Southern England hit by leaf hopper	2.
Spencer, K.A., 1972	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 5(g), 136pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Nepeta (cat-mints) 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)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Nepeta cataria Cat-mint				Species		2 trophisms
Nepeta nepetella x racemosa = N. x faassenii garden cat-mint				Species hybrid		1 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Nepeta (cat-mints)
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)

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

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Nepeta (cat-mints)

Nepeta (cat-mints) may 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 Nepeta (cat-mints):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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