Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Hydrellia maura

Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838

Diptera, Ephydridae

mine

Whitish, very shallow and irregular corridor; frass scant, irregularly dispersed. Pupation within the mine. Mine in submerged leaves.

hostplants

Potamogetonaceae, monophagous

Potamogeton.

phenology

Larvae in June, July (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Gosseries, 1991d).

NE recorded (Beuk & Zatwarnicki, 2002a).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2011).

distribution within Europe

From Fennoscandia to Spain and Sicily, and from Ireland to Bulgaria and Romania (Fauna Europaea, 2011).

synonyms

Hydrellia modesta Loew, 1860.

references

Beuk & Zatwarnicki (2002a), Gosseries (1991d), Hering (1957a), Robbins (1991a), Zatwarnicki (1988a).

20/03/2011

Last modified 28.vi.2017