Ophiomyia maura (Meigen, 1838)

Solidago virgaurea, Luxemburg, Ahn (Palmberg)
mine
Upper-surface, very slender, up to 40 cm long corridor that repeatedly winds through the leaf. Frass in remarkably large, very widely spaced grains. Puparium in the mine, at the end of the corridor.
hostplants
Asteraceae, narrowly oligophagous
Aster amellus; Callistephus chinensis; Erigeron cf annuus; Solidago cf gigantea, virgaurea; Symphyotrichum novi-belgii.
At least in Europe never on the introduced S. canadensis (Spencer, 1976a). Van Frankenhuyzen Houtman & Kabos (1982a) mention, next to Solidago also Delphinium as a host plant; that must be a mistake.
phenology
Larvae in June and August (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus, 1991a).
NE recorded (de Meijere, 1937a).
LUX recorded (Ellis: Ahn).
distribution within Europe
From Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, and from the UK to Poland; also Serbia (Fauna Europaea, 2008); Turkey (Hepdurgun a.o., 2007a).
larva
Described by Sasakawa (1961a).
puparium
Initially green, later blackish.
synonyms
Ophiomyia bicornis (Kaltenbach, 1869); O. asteris Kuroda, 1954.
references
Allen (1956a), Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a, 1979a), Beuk (2002a), De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1991a), Buhr (1932a, 1941b, 1964a), Černý (2007a), Černý & Vála (1996a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Drăghia (1971a), Eiseman & Lonsdale (2018a), van Frankenhuyzen Houtman & Kabos (1982a), Hartig (1939a), Hepdurgun ao, (2007a), Hering (1955b, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Kabos (1971), Kuroda (1954a), Kvičala (1938a), Maček (1999a), de Meijere (1925a, 1934a, 1937a, 1939a), Michalska (1970a, 1972a, 1976a, 2003a), Michna (1975a), Nowakowski (1954a), Pakalniškis (1982b, 1990a, 1994a), Papp & Černý (2015a), Robbins (1991), Sasakawa (1961a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Spencer (1957c, 1964a, 1972a, 1976a), Starke (1942a), Starý (1930a), Süss (1982a), Süss & Moreschi (2003a), Surányi (1942a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Zoerner (1969a).