Liriomyza infuscata Hering, 1926
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]


Liriomyza infuscata Hering, 1926d. Dt. ent. Z. 1926: 331.
Liriomyza portentosa Spencer, 1971a. Entomologist's Gaz. 22: 171. [Synonymised by Spencer, 1976: 252]
Liriomyza portentosa Spencer, 1971; Spencer, 1972. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 47 (fig. 147), 50.
Liriomyza infuscata Hering, 1926d; Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 252-4, figs 445-6.
Liriomyza infuscata Hering, 1926d; Spencer, 1990. Host specialization in the World Agromyzidae (Diptera) : 373.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Spencer (1990) deduced from the distinctive genitalia that infuscata is a grass-feeder.

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Rare. Records include Cambridge (Chippenham Fen) (Spencer, 1972: 50, as portentosa), Dunbarton (Bonhill) (Bland, 1994c: 82) and Huntingdonshire (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, Sweden, Finland, Germany (Spencer, 1976: 254), Belgium, Czech Republic, French mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Spanish mainland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Host species unknown

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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