Mine of Liriomyza centaurea on Centaurea scabiosa Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Leaf-mine: A short irregular linear mine with frass in more or less connected threads (Spencer, 1976: 238).

Fairly long, upper-surface, little branched corridor; loops close together. Frass in pearl chains or strings. Pupation outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: The larva is described by de Meijere (1937: 199, as Liriomyza sp. on Centaurea jacea); posterior spiracles each with 8-10 bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 238).

Puparium: Yellow (Paklaniskis, 1994a).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: June-October.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Surrey (Box Hill), Middlesex (Scratch Wood), Buckinghamshire (nr Tring), Cambridge (Chippenham Fen), Glam (Cefn Rhigos), Denbighshire (Cefn-y-bedd), Aberdeen (Den of Pitlurgh), Sutherland (Loch Assynt) (Spencer, 1972: 55), Warwickshire (Kingsbury) (Robbins, 1991: 122); Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Middlesex, Shropshire, South Wiltshire, Stafford 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).

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Distribution elsewhere: Common and widespread in much of Europe, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 238), The Netherlands, Luxembourg (Bladmineerders van Europa), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 558), Estonia, European Turkey, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Spanish mainland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

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