Euleia heraclei (Linnaeus, 1758)

celery fly

on Apiaceae

Levisticum officinale, Hungary, Budapest, 28.v.2021 © László Érsek: communal larvae

larva

detail

puparium, dorsal …

… ventral

gall

A large blotch, yellow or brown, preceded by a short corridor that in the end mostly is completely overrun. Generally several larvae share a mine. Especially in fresh mines the green primary and secondary feeding lines are well visible. Pupation outside the mine. Hering warns that the mines cannot be separated from those of the rare Cryptaciura rotundiventris.

host plants

Apiaceae, broadly oligophagous

Aegopodium podagraria; Ammi; Angelica archangelica, sylvestris, ursina; Anthriscus cerefolium, sylvestris; Apium graveolens; Berula erecta; Bupleurum; Cicuta virosa; Conioselinum; Conium maculatum; Coriandrum sativum; Dichoropetalum carvifolia; Falcaria vulgaris; Helosciadium nodiflorum; Heracleum asperum, “giganteum”, mantegazzianum, pubescens, sphondylium & subsp. elegans + sibiricum + transsilvanicum + verticillatum; Laserpitium; Levisticum officinale; Ligusticum mutellina, scoticum; Molopospermum peloponnesiacum; Oenanthe crocata; Pastinaca sativa; Petroselinum crispum; Peucedanum cervaria, ostruthium; Pimpinella major, saxifraga; Pleurospermum austriacum; Seseli libanotis; Sium latifolium, sisarum; Smyrnium olusatrum; Thapsia villosa; Torilis arvensis subsp. neglecta.

Mines have also been found on Eryngium, but there the larvae died prematurely. A reference to Ruta (Hering, 1957a) probably concerns xenophagy. Reatrf by Warrington & Clemons from Aquilegia vulgaris.

phenology

Larvae from June to October (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Baugnée, 2009a).
NE recorded (de Meijere, 1939a); common species.
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

distribution within Europe

Almost entire Europe (Fauna Europaea, 2007)..

larva

puparium

synonyms

Philophylla heraclei.

references

van Aartsen & Smit (2002a), Ahr (1966a), Baugnée (2006a, 2009a), Beiger (1955a, 1960a, 1965a, 1970a, 1979a), Bland (1992b, 1994b), Buhr (1933a), Dirlbeck (1974a), Ebejer (2015a), van Frankenhuyzen, Houtman & Kabos (1982a), Haase (1942a), Hansen, Hattendorf, Wittenberg ao (2006a), Hering (1927a, 1936b, 1937b, 1957a, 1962a, 1964a, 1967a), Homan (2012b), Huber (1969a), Klasa & Palaczyk (2020a), Kvičala (1938a), Leclercq & De Bruyn (1991a), Maček (1999a), de Meijere (1895a, 1939a), Merz (1999a), Merz & Kofler (2008a), Michalska (1970a, 1976a), Mohamadzade Namin, Nozari & Rasoulian (2010a), Neuenschwander & Freidberg (1983a), Niblett (1956a), Nowakowski (1954a), Pakalniškis (1983a), Pakalniškis ao (200a), Robbins (1991a), Shepard (0000a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Smit (2006a, 2010a), Sønderup (1949a), Starý (1930a), Warrington & Clemons (2023a), White (1988a).