Myosotis, Belgium, prov. West Flanders, De Panne, RN Westhoek: this is how the mine mifgt look like; without breeding the identification is more than provisional; © Stéphane Claerebout

mine

The larva of this species is unknown (Nowakowski, 1964a), and perhaps the only character differentiating it from A. abiens is the presence of several larvae in a (fully developed) mine of abiens, and just a single one in A, myosotidis. (Nowakowski, 1964a; Robbins, 1991a).

hostplants

Boraginaceae, oligophagous

Anchusa; Borago officinalis; Cynoglossum; Myosotis scorpioides; Pentaglottis sempervirens; Symphytum officinale, tuberosum.

BENELUX

BE recorded (Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus, 1996a).

NE not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

distribution within Europe

From Sweden to the Iberian Peninsula, and from the UK to Poland and Czechia (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

synonyms

Agromyza hirtella Becker, 1908.

notes

A. myosotidis was an almost forgotten species in literature (it was not mentioned by de Meijere or Hering) until it was rediscovered and redescribed by Spencer (1963b) and Nowakowski (1964a), but almost exclusively on adult specimens.

references

Beiger (1979a), Buhr (1964a), Černý (2004a, 2011a), Černý, Barták & Vaněk (2009a), Černý & Merz (2006a, 2007a), Černý & Vála (1996a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Nowakowski (1964a), Papp & Černý (2015a), Robbins (1991), Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1996a), Spencer (1963b, 1965c, 1972a, 1976a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a, 2000a).