Lifestyle:
Unknown.
Larva: The larvae of flies are leg-less maggots without a head capsule (see examples). They never have thoracic or abdominal legs. They do not have chewing mouthparts, although they do have a characteristic cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton (see examples), usually visible internally through the body wall.
The larva is described by Dempewolf (2001:
172).
Puparium: The puparia of flies are formed within the hardened last larval skin or puparium and as a result sheaths enclosing head appendages, wings and legs are not visible externally (see examples).
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland: Currently unknown.
Comments:
There is a record of Aulagromyza
discrepans on Artemisia (Robbins, 1991), but as the
mine has not previously been described, the record needs confirmation.
Hosts
elsewhere: Currently unknown. Not in Spencer (1990).
Time
of year - larvae: Currently unknown.
Time
of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Surrey (Godalming), Middlesex
(Scratch Wood), Cambridge (Chippenham), Suffolk (Orford) and Dunbartonshire (Bonhill) (Spencer, 1972b:
64); Cambridgeshire, Denbighshire, East Ross, South Lancashire and South-west Yorkshire (NBN
Atlas). Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Germany
(Dempewolf, 2001: 172),
Balearic Is., Belgium, Crete, Czech Republic, French mainland, Poland,
Slovakia, Spanish mainland and The Netherlands (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Currently unknown.
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