Leaf-mine: Mine an irregular stellate blotch with a later linear section. Pupation internal; firmly glued within the mine by frass (Spencer, 1976: 443).

The mine begins with a few lower-surface corridors, radiating from one centre that is not associated with the midrib; the corridors are very shallow and not easy to observe. Subsequently some (rarely only one) upper-surface, rather long and often branched corridors are formed from the same centre. Frass mostly at one side, in pearl chains. Pupation within the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

An upper surface gallery with a star-shaped start. Frass in pearl-strings (British leafminers).

Larva: The larva is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Chromatomyia lonicerae larva, lateral Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Puparium: Yellowish or reddish brown; posterior spiracles are elongate, with up to 24 bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 443). The anterior spiracles of the puparium penetrate the plant epidermis (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: May-August, November.

Time of year - adults: July-August. Single generation.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread inin Britain including Inner Hebrides (Isle of Coll) (Bland, 1992); Warwickshire (Coventry) (Robbins, 1991: 107); East Ross, East Sussex, East Sutherland, Flintshire, Herefordshire, Kirkudbrightshire, Middlesex, North Ebudes, Shropshire, South Wiltshire, Stafford and Surrey, West Gloucestershire and Worcestershire (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).

Mines from Sutherland (Golspie) (Spencer, 1972) may refer to Aulagromyza hendeliana or to Chromatomyia lonicerae.

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in much of Europe, including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 441), The Netherlands, Luxembourg (Bladmineerders van Europa), Belgium (de Bruyn and von Tschirnhaus, 1991), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 574), Austria, Corsica, Czech Republic, French mainland, Italian mainland, Lithuania and Poland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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