Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Comments: Xenophytomyza species 'must be grass-feeders' (Spencer, 1990: 367).

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Denbighshire (Cefn-y-bedd) (Spencer, 1972); Carmarthenshire, East Kent, Glamorgan, Huntingdonshire, North Somerset, Northamptonshire, Stafford and West Kent (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: Co. Clare (Spencer, 1972: 106).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Finland. Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 182), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 550), Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, French mainland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland and Yugoslavia (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 [128546]
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