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Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

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.

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).

Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: Currently unknown.

Time of year - adults: Common in spring (Spencer, 1990).

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widepread from Cornwall (I. of Scilly) to Sutherland (Invernaver) including Channel Is. (Fauna Europaea); Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, East Kent, East Suffolk, Glamorgan, North Somerset, Nottinghamshire, Pembrokeshire, South-west Yorkshire and West Cornwall (NBN Atlas).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland: Co. Clare (Burren) (Spencer, 1972b: 50).

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 259), Canary Is., Crete, Czech Republic, Dodecanese Is., European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Madeira, Malta, Poland, Sicily, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Yugoslavia (Fauna Europaea).

NBN Atlas links to known host species:

British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Currently unknown.