Hydrellia albilabris (Meigen, 1830)
[Diptera: Ephydridae]


Notophila albilabris Meigen, 1830. Syst. Beschr. 6: 71.
Hydrellia argyria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. Essai Myod.: 793.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Irwin & Chandler in Chandler (1978) did not indicate whether their host records were British or Foreign and are therefore tentatively included under 'Hosts in Britain' and 'Hosts elsewhere'.

Hosts in Britain:

Lemnaceae      

? Lemna

minor ? Common Duckweed Irwin and Chandler in Chandler, 1978: 224
Potamogeton     Pitkin and Plant
? Spirodela polyrhiza ? Greater Duckweed Irwin and Chandler in Chandler, 1978: 224, as Lemna

Hosts elsewhere:

Lemnaceae      

? Lemna

minor ? Common Duckweed Irwin and Chandler in Chandler, 1978: 224
Lemna     Hering, 1957
? Spirodela polyrhiza ? Greater Duckweed Irwin and Chandler in Chandler, 1978: 224, as Lemna
Spirodela     Hering, 1957

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Cambridgeshire, East Kent, Cardiganshire, East Kent, East Sussex, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, North Somerset, Radnorshire, West Norfolk and West Suffolk (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, Belkgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Madeira, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Zatwarnicki, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

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

Lemna minor, Spirodela polyrhiza

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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