Food Plant: Populus (Poplar): P.nigra (Black Poplar), P.x canadensis (Canadian Poplar)

Mine: late Summer

Notes: Forms an elongated blotch mine. The adults must be reared to identify this species as identical mines, with external pupariation, have been found with some mines of A.populi, where they form blotch mines (Warrington 2022). Homan (2024) found a mine of A.populi which showwed the typical gallery mine on the underside of a leaf but then swapped to the upper side and mimicked the morpholgy of a mine of A.populicola!

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5

Data: 15.x.2007, Dogmersfield, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds

References:
Homan R (2024) - Aulagromyza Endrlein (Diptera:Agromyzidae) and Populus: another cloud on the horiaon, Dipterists Digest 31 p47-48
WarringtonBP (2022) - A note on the larval mine of Aulagromyza populi (Kaltenbach) (Diptera:Agromyzidae), Dipterists Digest 29 p224