Leaf-mine:
Lower-surface
corridor; larva solitary. Pupation mostly outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).
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:
122).
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:
Hosts
elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae:
June-August, rarely September (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Time
of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Cambridgeshire (NBN
Atlas). Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Germany
(Bladmineerders van Europa), Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, French
mainland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).
Also
recorded in Canada (Spencer,
1969a: 128).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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