Phytomyza adjuncta Hering, 1928
Pimpinella major, Savelsbos: vacated mines; © Maarten Immerzeel
Pimpinella saxifraga, Belgium, prov. Namur, Chevetogne; © Jean-Yves Baugnée
Pimpinella saxifraga, Belgium, prov. Namur, Dourbes
detail
mine
A long, narrow, upper-surface initial corridor, starting in the centre of a leafllet, that suddenly widens. The widener later corridor closely follows the leaf margin. Frass in irregularly dispersed granules. Primary feeding lines apparent. Pupation outside the mine; exit slit in upper epidermis.
hostplants
Apiaceae, monophagous
Pimpinella major, saxfraga.
Also reported from Silaum silaus, but this may well be erroneous.
phenology
Larvae in June-July (Hering, 1957a), but found by me in the end of September.
BENELUX
BE recorded (Ellis: Dourbes).
NE recorded (Hering, 1959a: Meijendel; de Meijere, 1939a).
LUX recorded (Ellis: Kautenbach).
distribution within Europe
From Scandinavia to the Pyrenees and Italy, and from the UK to the Baltic States, Poland and Roumania (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
larva
puparium
Black.
synonyms
Phytomyza silaicomes Hering, 1960.
notes
Hering described the synonymous Ph. silaicomes from Silaum silaus, but Spencer (1972a) doubts the identification of the hostplant.
references
Andersen (2013a), Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a), Beuk (2002a), Buhr (1930a, 1932a, 1941b, 1964a), Černý (2001a, 2007a), Černý & Merz (2007a), Černý & Vála (1996a), Dreger & Myssura (2005a), Griffiths (1957a), Haase (1942a), Hartig (1939a), Hering (1928a, 1955b, 1957a, 1959a, 1960a), Huber (1969a), Kvičala (1938a), Maček (1999a), de Meijere (1934a, 1937a, 1939a), Michalska (1970a, 1972a), Nowakowski (1954a), Popescu-Gorj & Drăghia (1966a), Robbins (1991a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Spencer (1959a, 1971a, 1972a, 1976a), Süss & Moreschi (2003a), Surányi (1942a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Utech (1962a), Zoerner (1969a).