The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Clanoneurum cimiciforme (Haliday, 1855)
[Diptera: Ephydridae]


Discomyza cimiciforme Haliday, 1855. Nat. Hist. Rev. 2: 124.
Cyclocephala margininerve Strobl, 1902. Glasn. zemalj. Mus. Bosni. Herceg. 14: 502.
Clanoneurum infumatum Becker, 1903. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berl. 2 (3): 165.
Heringium ephydrininum Enderlein, 1934. Zool. Anz. 105: 193.
Discomyzoides longicornis Becker, 1926. 56a. Ephydridae. Fliegen pal. Reg. 6 (1): 23.


Leaf-mine: Broad mine of variable depth. Frass spread irregularly. Pupation usually internal, seldom external (Nederlandse bladmineerders).

Larva: The larva is described Hering (1962); anterior spiracles each with 2 bulbs (Nederlandse bladmineerders).

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Chenopodiaceae      
Atriplex     Irwin, 1978: 224 and as Halimione
Beta     Irwin, 1978: 224
Salicornia     Irwin, 1978: 224
Spergularia     Irwin, 1978: 224
Suaeda     Irwin, 1978: 224

Hosts elsewhere:

Chenopodiaceae      
Atriplex     Nederlandse bladmineerders
Atriplex     Hering, 1957a
Beta     Hering, 1957a
Beta maritima Maritime Beet Nederlandse bladmineerders
Obione     Hering, 1957a
Salicornia     Hering, 1957a
Salicornia europaea Common Glasswort Nederlandse bladmineerders
Suaeda     Nederlandse bladmineerders
Suaeda     Hering, 1957a

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Britain: Recorded in Britain by Irwin (1978: 224) including Essex (Essex Field Club), East Kent, East Suffolk and North Essex (NBN Gateway distribution map - NE).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Zatwarnicki, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Distribution elsewhere: Holarctic. Widespread in Europe including Germany (Hollmann-Schirrmacher & Zatwarnicki, 1999), Belgium (Gosseries, 1991d), Austria, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corsica, Crete, Croatia, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Poland, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland (Zatwarnicki, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in North Africa (Zatwarnicki, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



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Last updated 16-Aug-2008  Brian Pitkin