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Leaf-miner: Larva initially forming an irregular linear mine, which later develops into a conspicuous blotch; frass conspicuous.

Initially an upper-surface, narrow corridor of about 3 cm, that abruptly widens into an ill-coloured secondary blotch, which generally incorporates more or less of the corridor. Secondary feeding lines usually conspicuous. Pupation outside the mine; exit slit in the lower epidermis (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Forms an iregular upper surface blotch with conspicuous black frass (British leafminers).

Larva: The larvae of flies are leg-less maggots without a head capsule (see examples). They never have thoracic or abdominal legs. They do not have chewing mouthparts, although they do have a characteristic cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton (see examples), usually visible internally through the body wall.

The larva is described Sasakawa (1961) and Dempewolf (2001: 147).

Puparium: The puparia of flies are formed within the hardened last larval skin or puparium and as a result sheaths enclosing head appendages, wings and legs are not visible externally (see examples).

Puparium orange (Bladmineerders van Europa). Posterior spiracles each with an ellipse of about 10 bulbs.

Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:

Caprifoliaceae
Sambucus				Mines in BMNH
Sambucus				Robbins, 1991: 106
Sambucus				British leafminers
Sambucus	nigra	Elder		Mines in BMNH
Sambucus	nigra	Elder		Spencer, 1972b: 110

Hosts elsewhere:

Caprifoliaceae
Sambucus				Spencer, 1990: 238
Sambucus	ebulus	Dwarf Elder		Spencer, 1976: 229
Sambucus	nigra	Elder		Bladmineerders van Europa
Sambucus	nigra	Elder		Spencer, 1976: 229
Sambucus	nigra	Elder		Dempewolf, 2001: 147
Sambucus	racemosa	Red-berried Elder		Bladmineerders van Europa
Sambucus	racemosa	Red-berried Elder		Spencer, 1976: 229

Time of year - mines: June-October.

Time of year - adults: Currently unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Westmorland (Grasmere) (Spencer, 1972b: 52), Warwickshire (Allesley) (Robbins, 1991: 106), Midlothian (Duddingstone Loch) and other localities in Haddington, Midlothian, Fife and East Perth (Bland, 1994c: 82), Gloucester (Sandhurst) (British leafminers); Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, East Glocestershire, East Suffolk, East Sutherland, Easterness, Glamorgan, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, North Somerset, Nottinghamshire, South Lancashire, South Somerset, South-west Yorkshire, Surrey, West Gloucestershire and West Kent (NBN Atlas).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland: Dublin, Co. Wexford (New Ross) (Spencer, 1972b: 52).

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Finland, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 229), The Netherlands, Luxembourg (Bladmineerders van Europa), Belgium (de Bruyn and von Tschirnhaus, 1991), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 554; Dempewolf, 2001: 147), Czech Republic, European Turkey, French mainland, Lithuania, Madeira, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania and Slovakia (Fauna Europaea).

NBN Atlas links to known host species:

British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: