Phytomyza podagrariae Hering, 1954

Aegopodium podagraria, Germany (Baden-Württemberg), Baden-Weiler

Aegopodium podagraria, Denmark, Frd.lundskov © Morten Kofoed-Hansen
mine
Upper-surface, widening corridor. Mines in summer and autumn, June-October. Pupation outside the mine.
hostplants
Apiaceae, monophagous
Aegopodium podagraria.
phenology
Occupied mines from July till October.
BENELUX
BE recorded (Mortelmans ao, 2014a).
NE recorded (Ellis, many localities).
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
distribution within Europe
Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Czechia (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
larva
puparium
Aegopodium podagraria, Sweden, Gothenburg, 29.viii.2020 @ Johan Ennerfelt
notes
Hering’s description came too late (1954) to attract the attention of de Meijere; The species is not mentioned either by van Frankenhuyzen, Houtman & Kabos (1982a). Nevertheless in the Netherlands a fairly common species.
references
Ahr (1966a), Beiger (1970a), Černý (2001a, 2013a), Černý & Vála (1996a), Černý, Vála & Barták (2001a), Ci̇velek, Çikman & Dursun (2008a), Henshaw & Howse (1989a), Hering (1954a, 1957a), Maček (1999a), Mortelmans, Boeraeve, Tamsyn ao (2014a), Pakalniškis (1993a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a).