The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Botanophila depressa (Stein, 1907)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]


Chortophila depressa Stein, 1907. Annu. Mus. zool. Acad. Sci. St.-Pétersb. 12: 364.
Pegohylomyia oraria Collin, 1967. Entomologist's mon. Mag. 4: 126. [Synonymised by Chandler, 1998]
Pegohylomyia oraria Collin, 1967; Hering, 1970. JOURNAL: PAGE.
Botanophila depressa Stein, 1907; Chandler, 1998. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 12: 165.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Chenopodiaceae      
Chenopodium     Mike Ackland, pers. comm.
Suaeda maritima Annual Sea-blite Bland, 1994

Hosts elsewhere:

Chenopodiaceae      
Atriplex pedunculata Pedunculate Sea-purslane Nederlandse bladmineerders
Suaeda maritima Annual Sea-blite Nederlandse bladmineerders

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Britain: North Uist (Coquillett, 1901; Bland, 1994). Fife (NBN Gateway distribution map - TPIFEIC).

Distribution elsewhere: Europe including Germany (Nederlandse bladmineerders), Denmark and Sweden (Michelsen, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in China (Stein, 1907: 190).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



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