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


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


Leaf-mine: Blotch (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Chenopodiaceae      
Suaeda maritima Annual Sea-blite Bland, 1994

Hosts elsewhere:

Chenopodiaceae      
Atriplex pedunculata Pedunculate Sea-purslane Bladmineerders van Europa
Suaeda maritima Annual Sea-blite Bladmineerders van Europa
? Spergularia media Greater Sea-spurrey Bladmineerders van Europa, as 'perhaps Spergularia maritima'

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain incluidng Anglesey, Dorset, East Kent, East Sutherland, Easterness, North Devon, Pembrokeshire, South Devon and West Norfolk (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); North Uist (Coquillett, 1901; Bland, 1994).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental N.W, Europe including Germany (Bladmineerders van Europa), Denmark and Sweden (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

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

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

Atriplex pedunculata, ? Spergularia media, Suaeda maritima

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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