(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)

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

The larvae of flies are leg-less maggots without a head capsule. They never have thoracic or abdominal legs. They do not have chewing mouthparts, although they do have a characteristic cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton, usually visible internally through the body wall. The larvae lie on their sides within the mine and use their pick-like mouthparts to feed on plant tissue. In some corridor miners frass may lie in two rows on alternate sides of the mine. In order to vacate the mine the fully grown larva cuts an exit slit, which is usually semi-circular (see Liriomyza huidobrensis video).

Agromyza abiens [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
Image: © Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Agromyza albipennis [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza alnibetulae [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza alnivora [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza anthracina [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza ferruginosa [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza idaeiana [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza igniceps [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza johannae [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza nana [Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Agromyza viciae Diptera: Agromyzidae]
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Pegomya laticornis [Diptera: Anthomyiidae]
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