Stem-borer: Larva feeding as internal stem-borer (Spencer, 1972: 119).

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: This species should not be confused with Phytomyza trivittata Frost recorded in the U.S.A. and believed to feed in the seeds of Cordylanthus nevinii (see Spencer, 1990: 233-4).

Galium mollugo is treated as Galium album (Hedge Bedstraw) by Stace (2010).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in southern England including Surrey (Box Hill), Hampshire (Beaulieu), Gloucester (Blaise Woods) and Somerset (Radstock) (Spencer, 1972: 64) and Cambridgeshire, North Somerset and South Wiltshire (NBN Gateway - N.B. includes Watsonian Vice Counties having publicly available records that fall within or overlap the vice county border at 10km resolution or better i.e. a record for a vice county may relate to an adjacent vice county - for included datasets see NBN Grid map below).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 324), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 566), Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, French mainland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

NBN interactive distribution map(s) of known host species in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere:

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

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Bladmineerders van Europa
British leafminers
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Fauna Europaea [128611]
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