POTAMOGETONACEAE
(pondweeds)

Interactions where POTAMOGETONACEAE 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').

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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 (mid-rib) (live) live leaf (mid-rib) is mined by larva (young) UK/Ireland Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Acentria ephemerella/Acentria ephemerellawater veneerlarva (young) Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedsliveleaf (mid-rib) (summer+)larva (young) mines live leaf (mid-rib)
leaf margin (live) live leaf margin is rolled by larva (middle) UK/Ireland Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Acentria ephemerella/Acentria ephemerellawater veneerlarva (middle) Foodplant / rollerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedsliveleaf margin (summer+)larva (middle) rolls live leaf margin
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva UK/Ireland Hydrellia maura a shore fly Diptera: Ephydridae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Ephydridae/Hydrellia maura/Hydrellia mauraa shore flylarva Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedsliveleaf (summer)larva mines live leaf
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by caterpillar (young) UK/Ireland Elophila nymphaeata Brown China-mark Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Elophila nymphaeata/Elophila nymphaeatabrown china-markcaterpillar (young) Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedsliveleaf (summer+)caterpillar (young) mines live leaf
leaf (live) live leaf is grazed by mobile cased caterpillar (later) UK/Ireland Elophila nymphaeata Brown China-mark Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Elophila nymphaeata/Elophila nymphaeatabrown china-markcaterpillar (later) Foodplant / mobile cased feederUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedsliveleaf (summer+)caterpillar (later) grazes in mobile case on live leaf
leaves (live, spun) live, spun leaves is spun by larva (later) UK/Ireland Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Acentria ephemerella/Acentria ephemerellawater veneerlarva (later) Foodplant / spinnerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedslive, spunleaves (summer+)larva (later) spins live, spun leaves
midrib (live) live midrib is mined by larva UK/Ireland Hydrellia maura a shore fly Diptera: Ephydridae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Ephydridae/Hydrellia maura/Hydrellia mauraa shore flylarva Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedslivemidrib (summer)larva mines live midrib
petiole (live) live petiole is mined by larva UK/Ireland Hydrellia maura a shore fly Diptera: Ephydridae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Ephydridae/Hydrellia maura/Hydrellia mauraa shore flylarva Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedslivepetiole (summer)larva mines live petiole
petiole (live) live petiole is mined by larva (young) UK/Ireland Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer Lepidoptera: Crambidae A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands, Robbins, R., 1990
/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Acentria ephemerella/Acentria ephemerellawater veneerlarva (young) Foodplant / minerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Alismatales/Potamogetonaceae/Potamogetonaceaepondweedslivepetiole (summer+)larva (young) mines live petiole

Author & YearTitleSource
Robbins, R., 1990A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the MidlandsBenchmark Atlas Series, 1991? edition, 181pp, Warwickshire Museum Service

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

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Genus 7 subtaxa 19 trophisms 4 references
Genus 1 subtaxa 2 trophisms 3 references
Species 2 trophisms 2 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPOTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds)
OrderALISMATALES (pond plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for POTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Field Guide to the Identification of Difficult Aquatic Plants of the New Forest
Preston, C.D. 1995 Pondweeds of Great Britain & Ireland BSBI Handbooks, No. 8, 352pp, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to POTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 36 images of POTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds)
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