Briza quaking grass
Dichotomous table for leafminers
2a case straw-coloured, with a constriction behind the mouth: Coleophora lixella
2b case brownish, without a constriction: Coleophora ornatipennella
3a larva wth recognisable head a thoracic feet: Elachista sicula
3b larva a maggot => 4
4a larva: mandible with 1 tooth; at the begin oif the mine (often within a leaf sheath) at the outside an egg shell: Hydrellia griseola
4b mandible with 2 or more teeth; no egg shell visible => 5
5a larva: cephalic skeleton of Agromyzinae-type; pupation outside the mine: Agromyza nigrella / A. mobilis *
5b cephalic skeleton of Phytomyzinae-type => 6
6a larva yellow; pupation outside the mine: Liriomyza flaveola
6b larva whitish; puparium within the mine => 7
7a puparium whitish: Chromatomyia nigra
7b puparium metallic black: Cerodontha incisa
* See also the key to the grass-inhabiting Agromyza larvae.