Food Plant: Populus species eg P.tremula (Aspen), P.nigra (Black Poplar)

Mine: Bivoltine: early summer and early autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A long winding lower surface gallery. The mine of A.populi is similar, but the pupation is in the mine in this species. A.populi mines are partly, sometimes fully, upperside, whereas A.tremulae mines are lower surface. This was thought to be the case but Warrington (2024) bred A.tremulae adults from upper surface mines in Populus x canescens). Mine shown on Aspen

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 2

Data: 28.xi.2003, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds

References:
Warrington BP (2024) A note on the larval mine of Aulagromyza tremulae (Hering) (Diptera; Agromyzidae), Dipterists Digest 31 p48-49