Delia pruinosa (Zetterstedt, 1845)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]


Aricia pruinosa Zetterstedt, 1845. Dipt. scand. 4: 1567.
Aricia flavifrons Zetterstedt, 1860. Dipt. scand. 4: 6242. [Synonymised by Michelsen, 1985].
Hylemyia judicariae
Pokorny, 1893. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 43: 11.
Anthomyia (Chortophila) rubuginans
Pandelle, 1900. Revue Ent. 19(Suppl.): 254. Chortophila flavidipennis Stein, 1916. Arch. Naturgesch. 81A(10)(1915): 171. [Synonymised by Michelsen, 1985].
Delia pruinosa (Zetterstedt, 1845); Ackland and Pont, 1996. Entomologist's mon. Mag. 132: 18-19.


Seed-feeder: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Caryophyllaceae      
Silene vulgaris   Ackland and Pont, 1996: 19

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Cambridge (Devil's Ditch), Norfolk (Blakeney Point), Kent (Folkestone), Surrey (White Downs and Riddlesdown) and Sussex (Eastbourne, Crumbles) (Ackland and Pont, 1996); Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Merionethshire, South Hampshire, Surrey and Zetland (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 Denmark, Finland, Germany, ? Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - North, Sweden and Switzerland (Michelsen, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

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

Silene vulgaris

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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