The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Liriomyza hampsteadensis Spencer, 1971
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]


Liriomyza hampsteadensis Spencer, 1971a. Entomologist's Gaz. 22: 165.
Liriomyza hampsteadensis Spencer, 1971a; Spencer, 1972b. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 53 (fig. 179), 55.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Spencer (1990) suggested that the host was possibly Achillea millefolium on which the original series was caught.

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Britain: London (Hampstead), Middlesex (Scratch Wood) and Bucks (Wendover) (Spencer, 1972b: 55).

Distribution elsewhere: Europe including Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



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