Editing Lytta vesicatoria (section)

== Range and habitat ==

The Spanish fly is found across Eurasia, though it is a mainly a southern European species,<ref name=Cutler>{{cite book |last=Cutler |first=Horace G. |title=Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture |chapter=An Historical Perspective of Ancient Poisons |editor1-last=Nigg |editor1-first=Herbert N. |editor2-last=Seigler |editor2-first=David S. |year=1992 |page=3 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-2584-8_1 |isbn=978-1-4899-2586-2 }}</ref><ref name=GrzimeksAnLifeEncycl/><ref name=ITIS>{{cite book |editor-last=Guala |editor-first=Gerald |date=2015 |title=Lytta vesicatoria (Linnaeus, 1758), Taxonomic Serial No.: 114404 |chapter=Geographic Information: Geographic Division |location=Reston, Virginia |publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]], [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]] |chapter-url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114404# |access-date=20 December 2015 }}</ref> with some records from southern [[Great Britain]]<ref name=CGB>{{cite web |url=http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/species/lytta-vesicatoria |title=''Lytta vesicatoria'' (Linnaeus, 1758) |access-date=12 January 2018 |publisher=[[UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology]] |work=UK Beetle Recording |archive-date=4 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104082706/http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/species/lytta-vesicatoria |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Poland.<ref name=KSIB>{{cite web |url=http://baza.biomap.pl/en/taxon/species-lytta_vesicatoria_vesicatoria/mapb/tlm/list_species |title=''Lytta (Lytta) vesicatoria vesicatoria'' Linnaeus, 1758 |access-date=12 January 2017 |publisher=Polish Biodiversity Information Network (Krajowa Sieć Informacji o Bioróżnorodności)}}</ref>

Adult beetles primarily feed on leaves of [[ash tree|ash]], [[lilac]], [[amur privet]], [[honeysuckle]] and [[white willow]]. It is occasionally found on [[plum]], [[rose]], and [[elm]].<ref name=GrzimeksAnLifeEncycl/><ref>{{cite book |title=Medicines, their uses and mode of administration; including a complete conspectus of the three British Pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an Appendix of Formulae |last1=Neligan |first1=J. M. |last2=Macnamara |first2=R. |year=1867|page=297|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_Moore_NELIGAN_Medicines_their_uses_and_mode_o?id=_d5ZAAAAcAAJ |publisher=Fanin & Company }}</ref>