Chirosia cinerosa (Zetterstedt, 1845)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]


Aricia cinerosa Zetterstedt, 1845. Dipt. Scand. 4: 1450.
Aricia flavipennis Zetterstedt, 1845. Dipt. Scand. 4: 1451.
Aricia xanthoptera Boheman, 1864. Ofvers. K. svenska VetensAkad. Forh. 20(1863): 83
Pycnoglossa luteipennis Ringdahl, 1937. Opusc. ent. 2: 126.


Leaf / Stem-mine: In leaf stems and fronds (Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 227).

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Ackland in Chandler (1978) did not indicate whether his host records were British or Foreign and are therefore tentatively included under 'Hosts in Britain' and 'Hosts elsewhere'.

Hosts in Britain:

Woodsiaceae      

? Matteuccia

    Pitkin and Plant
? Matteuccia     Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 227
Dennstaedtiaceae      

? Pteridium

aquilinum Bracken Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 227

Hosts elsewhere:

Dennstaedtiaceae      

? Pteridium

aquilinum Bracken Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 227
Pteridium aquilinum Bracken Bladmineerders van Europa
Woodsiaceae      
Athyrium filix-femina Lady-fern Hering, 1957
Athyrium filix-femina Lady-fern Bladmineerders van Europa

? Matteuccia

    Pitkin and Plant
? Matteuccia     Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 227
Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich Feather Fern Bladmineerders van Europa

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Devon, Hants, Cumbria, Elgin (Mike Ackland, pers. comm.); Berkshire, Brecon, Dorset, East Cornwall, Elgin, Main Argyll, Merionethshire, North Devon, North Wiltshire, South Devon 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 Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, ? Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central, North and Northwest, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

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

Athyrium filix-femina, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteridium aquilinum

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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