Populus x canadensis, Belgium, prov. Liège, Braives © Jean-Yves Baugnée

mine

Yellowish, tortuous corridor with the sides very untidily eaten out. The mine frequently starts at the lower surface, mostly, but by no means always, turning upper-surface later on. Frass in isolated grains, irregularly distributed at either side of the corridor. Puparium brown, in a widened pupal chamber in the mine; near the frontal end of the pupa the epidermis is already more or less torn open.

host plants

Salicaceae, monophagous

Populus alba, x berolinensis, x canadensis, carolinensis, gileadensis, nigra incl. cv. “italica”, simonii, tremula, trichocarpa.

phenology

Larvae in June and September-October (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Scheirs ao, 1994a).

NE recorded (de Meijere, 1924a, 1939a).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

distribution within Europe

From Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Serbia and Thrace, and from the UK to the Baltic States and Moldavia (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

larva

puparium

synonyms

Agromyza, Paraphytomyza, Phytagromyza populi; Paraphytomyza, Phytagromyza populivora (Hendel, 1926).

notes

Sasakawa (1961a) mentions the species from Japan, with not only Populus nigra as a host plant, but also Salix babylonica. He adds that on a single willow leave up to 22 larvae were found. This sheds some doubt about Sasakawa’s identification, and the illustrations of the larva that he provides should be used with some caution.

references

Beiger (1979a), Benavent, Martínez, Moreno & Jiménez (2004a), Beuk (2002a), Braggion (2013a), Buhr (1932a, 1964a), Černý, Vála & Barták (2001a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Drăghia (1967a, 1968a), van Frankenhuyzen & Houtman (1972a), van Frankenhuyzen Houtman & Kabos (1982a), Haase (1942a), Hering (1923a, 1925a, 1955b, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Kabos (1971a), Maček (1999a), Manning (1956a), Martinez & Gumez (1998a), Matošević, Pernek, Dubravac & Barić (2009a), de Meijere (1924a, 1939a), Nowakowski (1954a), Papp & Černý (2016a), Popescu-Gorj & Drăghia (1966a), Robbins (1991a), Pakalniškis (1982b), Sasakawa (1961a), Scheirs ao (1994a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Skuhravá & Roques (2000a), Sønderup (1949a), Spencer (1953a, 1954a, 1972a, 1976a), Stammer (2016a), Starke (1942a), Starý (1930a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Utech (1962a), Zoerner (1969a, 19870a).