Delia cardui (Meigen, 1826)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]

Carnation fly

Anthomyia cardui Meigen, 1826. Syst. Beschr. 5: 104.
Delia floricola Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. Essai Myod. : 572.
Anthomyia impressitarsis Macquart, 1835. Hist. nat. Ins., Dipt. 2: 335.
Chortophila laminifera Rondani, 1866. Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., Milano 9: 167.

Leaf- and stem-mine: Mine always arising from the leaf base or ending in it, because the larva mines and changes leaves. Mine often broad, irregular corridor like, often touching the midrib. At first corridor often entirely without frass, later in the spring the mines are often less deep, containing thick, irregularly deposited frass lumps.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: The records of Delia cardui on Lychnis and Silene are unsubtantiated (Mike Ackland, pers. comm.). 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'.

Lychnis coronaria is treated as Silene coronaria (Rose Campion) by Stace (2010).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Warwickshire (Coventry and Stoke) (Robbins, 1991: 33); Berkshire, East Kent, Easterness, Glamorgan, North Somerset and Surrey (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 Austria, Belgium, Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Northwest, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in the Near East and Nearctic Region (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.