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Table 1. —Taxonomic list of insects and associated weedy plants— Continued 



Insect 1 Associated plant 



LEPIDOPTERA— Continued 

 Coleopfaoridae 



Coleophora sp. [12, 35] Centaurea nicaeensis Allioni 



Salsola kali L. 

 Cosmopterigidae 

 Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller) [12] Carthamus lanatus L. 



Centaurea amara L. 



Centaurea calcitrapa L. 



Centaurea sphaerocephala L. 



Cirsium arvense (L.) Scopoli 



Cynara scolymus L. 



Galactites tomentosa Moench 



Onopordum sp. 



Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertner 

 Stagmatop hora serratella (Treitschke) [12] Linaria dalmatica (L.) Miller 



Linaria repens (L.) Miller 



Linaria vulgaris Miller 



Linaria sp. 

 Geometridae 



Chlorissa sp. Senecio aquaticus Hill 



Ematurga atomaria (L.) [24] Senecio jacobaea L. 



Eupithecia absinthiata (Clerck) [12] Do. 



Eupithecia centaurearia (Denis & Schiffermuller) [24] Senecio aquaticus Hill 



Senecio jacobaea L. 



Eupithecia linariata (Denis & Schiffermuller) [24] Linaria vulgaris Miller 



Eupithecia sp. [5] Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Tenore 



Gymnoscelis pumilata (Hiibner) [25] Linaria vulgaris Miller 



Lyonetiidae 



Leucoptera spartifoliella (Hiibner) Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link 



Noctuidae 

 Calophasia casta (Borkhausen) [24] Linaria dalmatica (L.) Miller 



Linaria sp. 

 Heliothis peltiger (Denis & Schiffermuller) [24] Centaurea calcitrapa L. 



Salvia limbata C. A. von Meyer 



Heliothis sp. [24] Linaria sp. 



Peridroma saucia (Hiibner) [24] Senecio squalidus L. 



Phytometra sp. [24] Salvia verbenaca L. 



Porphyrinia parva (Hiibner) [24] Carthamus lanatus L. 



Centaurea amara L. 



Centaurea calcitrapa L. 



Centaurea napifolia L. 



Porphyrinia purpurina (Denis & Schiffermuller) [24] Cirsium odontolepis Boissier 



Prodotis stolida (Fabricius) [24] Centaurea amara L. 



Cynara scolymus L. 



Nymphalidae 



Cynthia cardui (L.) [37] Salvia palaestina Bentham 



Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertner 

 Melitaea cinxia (L.) [37] Cynara scolymus L. 



Melitaea didyma (Esper) [37] Linaria vulgaris Miller 



Linaria sp. 



Oecorphoridae 



Depressaria sp. Centaurea cineraria L. 



Plutellidae 

 Plutella xylostella (L.) [12] Linaria sp. 



See footnotes at end of table. 



