Leaf-miner: Corridor-blotch
mine. Mine either upper or underside, whitish. Frass in small black
clumps.
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.
Watch a video of a scaptomyzid fly larva on Arabidopsis on YouTube by mash92587.
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).
Adult:
The adult is illustrated in the Encyclopedia
of Life.
Comments:
The species has been recorded feeding on decaying vegetation,
particularly giant hogweed, Heracleum
mantegazzianum and Cirsium. Chandler (1978) did not
indicate whether his host record was British or Foreign and is therefore
included under 'Hosts in Britain' and 'Hosts elsewhere'.
Robbins
(1991) recorded Scaptomyza pallida on Polygonatum.
This is not correct (Willem Ellis, pers. comm.).
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts elsewhere:
Time
of year - mines: Currently unknown.
Time
of year - adults: There are at least two generations a year,
with adults most abundant in July and September.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread, from the Orkney
Islands in the north to the Channel Islands in the south including
Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Breconshire, Buckinghamshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire,
Carmarthenshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk,
East Suffolk, East Sussex, East Sutherland, Elgin, Fife, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire,
Leicestershire, Merionethshire, Mid-west Yorkshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, North Ebudes, North Essex, North Hampshire, North Northumberland, North Somerset, North-east Yorkshire, North-west Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire,
Renfrewshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeenshire, South Devon, South Essex,
South Hampshire, South Lancashire, South Lincolnshire, South Northumberland, South Somerset, South-east Yorkshire,
South-west Yorkshire,
Stafford, West Cornwall, West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Lancashire, West Norfolk, West Suffolk, West Sussex, Westmorland and Worcestershire (NBN
Atlas). Also recorded in the Channel Islands (Pape and Bächli
in Fauna Europaea). Distribution
elsewhere: Occurs worldwide and is Widespread in continental Europe, Asia
and north Africa (Bächli
and Roche Pite, 1984) including Albania, Andorra, Austria,
Azores, Balearic Is., Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyclades Is., Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Danish mainlan, Dodecanese Is, European Turkey,
Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary,
Iceland, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Norwegian mainland, Poland,
Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - Central, North, Northwest
and South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland,
Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Pape
and Bächli in Fauna Europaea).
Also
recorded from the Afro-tropical region, Australian region, East
Palaearctic, Near East, Nearctic region, Neotropical region, North
Africa and North Africa (Pape and Bächli in Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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