Leaf-mine: Mine star shaped when small, sometimes with a longer linear section, later an irregular brownish blotch. Pupation internal (Spencer, 1976: 466).

Mine not associated with the midrib, stellate, with a large number of short upper-surface corridors. The mine looks greyish and is inconspicuous. Frass in discrete grains. One, sometimes two larvae in a mine. Pupation within the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Forms an upper surface mine which is normally blotchy. The young mine is stellate. The initial mine is purple in colour - turning brown as it ages (British leafminers).

Larva: The larva is described by de Meijere (1926 and 1937) and Griffiths (1974).

Puparium: Yellowish-brown; posterior spiracles on short projections, each with about 20 bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 466). The anterior spiracles of the yellow-brown puparium penetrate the plant epidermis (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Chromatomyia periclymeni puparium Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: June-August, October.

Time of year - adults: July-August and May the following year.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Surrey (Box Hill) (Spencer, 1972: 94), Inner Hebrides (Isle of Coll) (Bland, 1992), Rum (Bland, in Whitely, 1994), Warwickshire (Coventry, Keresley and Kingsbury Wood) (Robbins, 1991: 107), Hampshire (Yateley Heath Wood) (British leafminers); Brecon, Caithness, East Ross, Shropshire, Stafford, Surrey 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).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland: Co. Clare (Glengariff) (Spencer, 1972: 94).

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Distribution elsewhere: Common and widespread in central and western Europe, including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 466), The Netherlands (Bladmineerders van Europa), Belgium (de Bruyn and von Tschirnhaus, 1991), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 574), Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Iceland, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Poland, Spanish mainland and Switzerland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Fauna Europaea [128332]
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