Agromyza varicornis Strobl, 1900
mine
The mine begins as a narrow under-surface corridor. It usually quickly becomes upper-surface, and also the following blotch part of the mine is upper-surface. Here and there in the blotch the larvae also eats from the palissade parenchyma, giving the mine a mottled aspect when held against the light, but less strongly than in A. lathyri. Frass in the initial corridor, if at all visible, in short threads; very little frass in the blotch. Pupation outside the mine.
hostplants
Fabaceae, monophagous
Lathyrus latifolius, sylvestris.
phenology
Larvae in June (Hering, 1957a); Robbins (1991a) however writes early summer and early autumn.
BENELUX
BE Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
distribution within Europe
UK, Poland, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Serbia (Fauna Europaea, 2007).
larva
synonyms
Agromyza watersi Spencer, 1957.
notes
The species also mines the wings of the stem, making whitish corridors (Robbins, 1991a).
references
Bland (2001a), Hering (1957a,b), Pakalniškis (1983a), Robbins (1991a), Spencer (1957e, 1959a, 1971a, 1972a).
13/04/2012