Cerodontha hennigi [Diptera: Agromyzidae]

Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1848
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]

Chlorops lateralis Zetterstedt, 1848. Dipt. Scand. 7: 2799. [Preoccupied]
Chlorops lateralis Zetterstedt, 1848; Hendel, 1932. Fliegen palaearkt. Reg. 6(2): 273.
Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1967. Polskie Pismo ent. 37(4): 656. [As nom. nov. ] Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1967; Nowakowski, 1972. Polskie Pismo ent. 42(4): 738.
Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1967; Spencer, 1972; Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 105 (fig. 358), 107.
Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1967; Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 175-7, figs 314, 317 ['fig. 315' should read 'fig. 317'].
Cerodontha (Cerodontha) hennigi Nowakowski, 1967; Spencer, 1990. Host specialization in the world Agromyzidae (Diptera) : 354, 364, 367.

Leaf-mine: A long irregular mine in late summer and autumn, overwintering low in the stem, burrowing into a young leaf and continuing feeding the following spring (Spencer, 1976: 177).

At least part of the mine consists of a very long, narrow, full depth corridor that is almost free of frass. The larva moves from one leaf to the other by way of the leaf sheath; most frass to be found in the leaf sheaths (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: The larva is described by Nowakowski (1973) and Dempewolf (2001).

Puparium: The puparium is unusually slender. Posterior spiracles club-shaped, with about 18 bulbs (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Hosts in Britain:

Poaceae
Calamagrostis	epigejos	Wood Small-reed	Spencer, 1972: 123

Hosts elsewhere:

Poaceae
Calamagrostis	epigejos	Wood Small-reed	Spencer, 1976: 177
Calamagrostis	epigejos	Wood Small-reed	Spencer, 1990: 364
Calamagrostis	epigejos	Wood Small-reed	Bladmineerders van Europa

Time of year - mines: Probably from late autumn to May; hibernation in a leaf sheath (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in England. Huntingdonshire (Woodwalton Fen), Suffolk (Barton Mills), Oxfordshire (Hall Copse) and Cambridgeshire (Chippenham Fen) (Spencer, 1972: 107); Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and South Hampshire (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).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe, including Austria, [former] Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Finland, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 177) and France (Bladmineerders van Europa), Czech Republic, Estonia, Italian mainland, Lituania, Poland, Slovakia and Spanish mainland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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

Calamagrostis epigejos

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.


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	Last updated 19-Jan-2012 Brian Pitkin