Carex pendula, Germany (Baden-Württemberg): Badenweiler

mine

Long, rather broad corridor, about halfway the leaf blade. Frass in a few large, black lumps. Puparium formed now in, then outside the mine, yellow- to blackish brown.

host plants

Cyperaceae, oligophagous

Carex acuta, acutiformis, cuprina, divulsa, flacca, flava, hirta, leporina, paniculata, pendula, pilosa, pseudocyperus, remota, riparia, sylvatica, vesicaria, vulpina.

Rarely also on Scirpus sylvaticus.

phenology

Larvae from June – October (Nowakowski, 1973a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus, 1995a)

NE recorded (Ellis: Hierden, Slenaken, Bunderbos).

LUX recorded (Ellis: Kautenbach).

distribution within Europe

All of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

larva

puparium

notes

Belongs in the subgenus Butomomyza (Nowakowski, 1973a).

Beuk (2002a) added angulata to the Dutch list on the basis of de Meijere’s (1926a) description of the larva of C. semiposticata. This description, however, was based on material from Germany.

references

Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1970a, 1980a), Beuk (2002a), Buhr (1932a), Černý (2001, 2007a, 2010a, 2011a), Černý, Andrade, Gonçalves & von Tschirnhaus (2018a), Černý, Barták & Roháček (2004a), Černý & Merz (2007a), Černý & Vála (1999a), Černý, Vála & Barták (2001a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Dempewolf (2001a), Eiseman & Lonsdale (2018a), Eiseman, Lonsdale, van der Linden ao (2021a), Groschke (1954a) Hering (1925b, 1957a, 1926b), Huber (1969a), de Meijere (1926a), Michalska (1976a), Nowakowski (1973a), Papp & Černý (2016a), Robbins (1991a), Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1995a, 1996a, 1999a, 200a), Sasakawa (1961a), Skala (1936a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Spencer (1954a, 1972a, 1976a), Starke (1942a), Starý (1930a), Zlobin (1986b).