Phytomyza petoei Hering, 1924

Mentha spec., Belgium, prov. East Fanders, Gand; © Jonas Mortelmans

Mentha spec., Belgium, Liège; © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Mentha spec., Belgium, Namur; © Jean-Yves Baugnée
mine
Upper-surface corridor, often branched and crossing itself, but not forming a secondary blotch. Frass mainly in thread fragments. Pupaption generally outside the mine. Sometimes pupation occurs within the mine, near the lower epidermis, but then already an exit slit has been made, and the spiracula do not penetrate the epidermis (Hering, 1924a, 1957a).
host plants
Lamiaceae, oligophagous
Melisssa; Mentha aquatica, longifolia, spicata, suaveolens; Monarda.
phenology
Larvae from April to October in several generations (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Jean-Yves Baugnée, 2012; see also Mortelmans ao, 2014a).
NE recorded (Hering, 1957a).
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
distribution within Europe
From Lithuania to the Iberian Peninsula, and from the UK to Thrace (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
larva
Described by de Meijere (1937a) and Spencer (1973b). Rear spiraculum with about 25 papillae.
parasitoids, predators
notes
Hering (1957a) found the species to be common on Monarda, gone wild in the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus. A pest on cultivated mint (Spencer, 1973b).
references
Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a, 1979a), Benavent, Martínez, Moreno & Jiménez (2004a), Beri (1971e), Buhr (1932a, 1941b, 1964a), Černý (2011a), Černý & Merz (2006a, 2007a), Černý & Vála (2006a), Černý, Vála & Barták (2001a), Civelek, Deeming & Önder (2000a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Cooper (2014a), Dreger & Myssura (2005a), Hering (1924a,b, 1936b, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Kvičala (1938a), Maček (1999a), de Meijere (1937a), Michalska (2003a), Mortelmans, Boeraeve, Tamsyn ao (2014a), Ostrauskas, Pakalniškis & Taluntytė (2003a), Pakalniškis (1993a), Robbins (1991a), Skala (1951a), Sønderup (1949a), Spencer (1953a, 1972a, 1973b, 1976a), Starý (1930a), Süss (1999a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Zoerner (1969a).