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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants Family   Piesmidae Sub Family   Description   beet bugs Background to Family   Two species occur in Great Britain, feeding on a range of goosefoots (Chenopodiaceae), including cultivated beets, in coastal and inland habitats. However, captive-reared Piesma quadratum can develop on other hosts. The sub-species P. quadratum spergulariae is endemic to the Isles of Scilly, where the host plant is rock sea-spurrey, Spergularia rupicola. In continental Europe, P. quadratum is a vector of beet (Beta vulgaris) viruses.     No. taxa in DBIF   4 No. interactions   19 % interactions with British data   21% No. records   19 % taxa with British data   50% Notes   Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings.; ; Notes on Sources   Most recent source   1981 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.   Source   Woodroffe, G.E.(1966) Entomologist 99 107-110:107 Source   Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D. (1959) Land and water bugs of the British Isles 1-436:129 Source   Schaefer, C.W.(1981) Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 74 536-539:538