Phytomyza peucedani Rydén, 1953

Diptera, Agromyzidae

mine

Upper-surface primary blotch without preceding corridor, grey green when fresh, quickly turning brown. Primary feeding lines conspicuous. Much frass, scattered in the mine. Often several larvae share a mine. Pupation outside the mine, exit slit in upper epidermis.

hostplants

Apiaceae, narrowly monophagous

Peucedanum cervaria.

phenology

Larvae in June (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

Not known from the Benelux countries (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

Germany, Poland (Fauna Europaea, 2009), Slovenia (Maček, 1999a).

references

Beiger (1960a), Hering (1957a), Huber (1969a), Maček (1999a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a).

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