Hydrellia albifrons (Fallén, 1813)
Diptera, Agromyzidae
mine
Broad upper suface corridors, sometimes almost a blotch. The larva can leave its mine and restart elsewehere. Frass hardly discernable. Pupation witihn the mine.
hostplants
Hydrocharitaceae, monophagous
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae.
In the botanical garden of Berlin also found on the extra-European Potamogeton drucei.
phenology
Mines found in August (Hering, 1925b).
BENELUX
Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
distribution within Europe
From Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula and Italy, and from the UK to Hungary (Fauna Europaea, 2008).
larva
Green.
synonyms
Hydrellia hydrocharitis Hering, 1925; H. xenophaga Hering, 1950.
references
Buhr (1933a), Hering (1925b, 1950a, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Sønderup (1949a), Zatwarnicki (1988a).
21/03/2011