Phytomyza angelicastri Hering, 1932

Angelica sylvestris, Susteren: mine lighted from behind

leaf lower surface

Angelica sylvestris, Belgium, prov. Luxembourg, Ambly © Jean-Yves Baugnée

same mine, underside
mine
Upper-surface gallery, often following the leaf margin for some length, finally strongly widened. The real start of the mine, however, is a long narrow epidermal corridor in the lower surface of the leaf, made by the first instar larva (Allen, 1956a). Pupation outside the mine, exit slit generally in the lower epidermis.
hostplants
Apiaceae, oligophagous
Aegopodium podagraria; Angelica sylvestris
Only occasionally on Aegopodium.
phenology
Larvae in June and August (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus, 1991a).
NE recorded (Ellis, several localities).
LUX recorded (Ellis: Kautenbach, Hobscheid).
distribution within Europe
From Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Alps and Slovakia, and from Ireland to Lithuania and Poland; also Bulgaria (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
larva
puparium
Black.
references
Ahr (1966a), Allen (1956a, 1957b), Beiger (1965a, 1970a, 1979a, 1980a), de Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1991a), Buhr (1941b), Černý (2001a, 2011a), Černý & Vála (1996a, 1999a), Dreger & Myssura (2005a), Griffiths (1962a, 1973c), Hering (1932h, 1955b, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Maček (1999a), Manning (1956a), de Meijere (1938a), Michalska (1970a, 1976a), Ostrauskas, Pakalniškis & Taluntytė (2003a), Robbins (1991a), Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Spencer (1953a, 1972a, 1976a), Starke (1942a), Surányi (1942a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Zoerner (1969a).