Delia pruinosa [Diptera: Anthomyiidae] in Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)

by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds

Delia pruinosa (Zetterstedt, 1845)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]

Aricia pruinosa Zetterstedt, 1845. Dipt. scand. 4: 1567
Aricia flavifrons Zetterstedt, 1860. Dipt. scand. 4: 6242. [Synonymised by Michelsen, 1985]
Hylemyia judicariae Pokorny, 1893. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 43: 11
Anthomyia (Chortophila) rubuginans Pandelle, 1900. Revue Ent. 19(Suppl.): 254
Chortophila flavidipennis Stein, 1916. Arch. Naturgesch. 81A(10)(1915): 171. [Synonymised by Michelsen, 1985].
Delia pruinosa (Zetterstedt, 1845); Ackland and Pont, 1996. Entomologist's mon. Mag. 132: 18-19.

Seed-feeder: Details 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.

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:

Caryophyllaceae
Silene	vulgaris	Bladder Campion		Ackland and Pont, 1996: 19

Hosts elsewhere: Currently unknown.

Time of year - mines: Currently unknown.

Time of year - adults: Currently unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Cambridgeshire (Devil's Ditch), Norfolk (Blakeney Point), Kent (Folkestone), Surrey (White Downs and Riddlesdown) and Sussex (Eastbourne, Crumbles) (Ackland and Pont, 1996); Cambridgeshire, Dorset, East Sussex, Merionethshire, South Hampshire, Surrey, Shetland (NBN Atlas).

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Finland, Germany, ? Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - North, Sweden and Switzerland (Michelsen in Fauna Europaea).

NBN Atlas links to known host species:

Silene vulgaris

British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Currently unknown.


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