Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Ctenosciara develops in decaying material and is very unlikely to be a leaf-miner (Peter Chandler, pers. comm.)

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Warwickshire (Robbins, 1991: 27), Berkshire, East Kent, East Sussex, Easterness, Elgin, Merionethshire, North Hampshire, North-east Yorkshire, Shropshire, Stafford, West Suffolk, West Sussex 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 (Heller, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Heller, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

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

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.