Dip:Agromyzidae
  home | mines | species | plants | mine-keys | links | search | updates | newsletters | news | books
Ophiomyia alliariae Hering 1954
< back | next >
puparium in mine

Food Plant: Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard), Recorded Elsewhere: Brassica, Capsella, Cardamine, Erysimum (Wallflowers), Raphanus (Radish), Sinapis, Sisymbrium

Mine: Jun-Jul; Sept-Oct

Notes: Forms an inconspicuous mine just below the stem epidermis, which is initially greenish but then turns whitish as it ages (as shown). Pupariation is in the stem and the puparium is greenish or black (as shown) but becomes white when vacated.

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5

Data: 30.ix.2025, Downham Market, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds

sponsored by Colin Plant Associates (UK) LLP/Consultant Entomologists

www.leafmines.co.uk