Food Plant: Elymus repens (Common Couch grass)

Mine: July

Notes: Most of the top of the leaf is occupied by a lower surface mine. Frass is greenish and irregular, frequently washed out. Pupariation is within the mine and a matt black, somewhat compressed. puparium is formed. A rare European species, with previous records from Germany and the Czech Republic. Discovered in Britain (Warrington, 2019).

Data:

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Recording Grade: 5

References:
Warrington, BP (2019) - Cerodontha (Poemyza) zuskai Nowakowski (Diptera:Agromyzidae) new to Britain, with additional European records, Dipterists Digest 26, 178-180