Leaf-mine: A long conspicuous white linear mine. Pupation external (Spencer, 1976: 315, 317 (fig. 565)).

An upper-surface corridor that widens only a little, and generally is unbranched. Often a part of the corridor loosely follows the leaf margin. Frass in two neat rows of grains or short thread fragments. Pupation outside the mine. Feeding punctures in the lower surface (always?) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

An upper surface gallery with frass in large, well-spaced grains (British leafminers).

Larva: Posterior spiracles of larva (and puparium) without horn within ellipse of spiracular bulbs (British leafminers). The larvae was described by de Meijere (1949), Dempewolf (2001: 164) and in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Aulagromyza hendeliana larval. lateral Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Puparium: Yellowish; posterior spiracles with 20 minute bulbs, without a horn-like process (Spencer, 1976: 315). The puparium is illustrated in British leafminers and Bladmineerders van Europa.

Aulagromyza hendeliana puparium Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: June-October.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Common in southern England (Spencer, 1972: 65) Records include Warwickshire (Packington) (Robbins, 1991: 106), Hampshire (Fleet) (British leafminers) and Rum (Bland in Whiteley, 1994), Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Edinburgh, Haddington, Huntingdonshire, Linlithgow, Middlesex, North Ebudes, South Wiltshire, Stafford and Surrey (NBN Gateway, as Paraphytomyza hendeliana).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland: Co. Clare, Co. Cork and Co. Galway (Spencer, 1972: 65).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in much of Europe, including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 315), Netherlands (Bladmineerders van Europa), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 562; Dempewolf, 2001: 164), French mainland, Lithuania, Poland, Spanish mainland and Switzerland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:

Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bladmineerders van Europa
British leafminers
Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea [128586]
NBN Gateway, as Paraphytomyza hendeliana