same mine, frass pattern

mine

Long, upper-surface corridor with the frass in relatively large, widely dispersed fragments. Pupation outside the mine; exit slit in lower epidermis.

host plants

Ranunculaceae, narrowly oligophagous

Ficaria verna; Ranunculus aconitifolius, acris, breyninus, flammula, lanuginosus, lingua, montanus, polyanthemos, repens.

phenology

Larvae in July-August (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Mortelmans ao, 2013a).

NE recorded (Ellis: a number of localities all over the country).

LUX recorded (Ellis: Kautenbach, Clervaux, Flaxweiler).

distribution within Europe

From Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Italy and Slovakia, and from the UK to Belarus (Fauna Europaea, 2008).

larva

posterior spiraculum (from Nowakowski, 1962b)

puparium

notes

When a small leaf, like that of R. ficaria has been completely mined out, the larva may migrate to another leaf by way of the petiole. Leaving a mine, then entering a new leaf from the outside, is impossible for Agromyzidae (Hering, 1949a).

references

Beiger (1958a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a), Bland (1994c), Buhr (1964a), Černý (2001a), Černý, Andrade, Gonçalves & von Tschirnhaus (2018a), Černý, Barták & Roháček (2004a), Černý & Merz (2007a), Chałańska, Łabanowski & Soika (2006a), Dreger & Myssura (2005a), Hering (1931f, 1949a, 1957a, 1961a), Huber (1969a), Kahanpää (2014a) Finland, Kuroda (1954a), Maček (1999a), de Meijere (1938a), Michalska (1970a, 1972a, 1976a), Mortelmans, Dekeukeleire & Baugnée (2013a), Nowakowski (1958a, 1962b), Ostrauskas, Pakalniškis & Taluntytė (2003a), Pakalniškis (1982b, 1998a, 2004a), Popescu-Gorj & Drăghia (1968a), Robbins (1991a), Spencer (1954a, 1972a, 1976a), Süss & Moreschi (2003a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Ureche (2010a), Zoerner (1969a, 1970a).