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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants © Roger Key Family   Orsodacnidae Sub Family   Description   a family of leaf beetles Background to Family   Most records refer to adults of Orsodacne feeding on the pollen and anthers of flowers. They use a wide range of herbaceous plants, shrubs and both broadleaved and coniferous trees, but particularly Rosaceae. Larval hosts are unknown for the scarce O.humeralis, while O.cerasi possibly develops in the apical shoots of oaks (Quercus).     No. taxa in DBIF   2 No. interactions   42 % interactions with British data   81% No. records   60 % taxa with British data   100% Notes   Old data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, errors in original sources, or for misspellings. New material added from Cox, 2007 (Atlas of the seed and leaf beetles of Britain and Ireland. Pisces Publications, UK).; The family was previously treated as a sub-family in the Chrysomelidae. ; Notes on Sources   (33%) Cox, M.L.(1981) Entomologist's Gaz. 32:2 123-135:123; (32%) Cox, M.L. (2007) Atlas of the seed and leaf beetles of Britain and Ireland. Pisces Publications, UK.; (17%) Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:110 Most recent source   2007 Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.