Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Like other species of Melanagromyza it is likely to be a stem- or root-borer or galler.

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: June.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Uncommon. London (Putney Heath), Cambridge (Snailwell), Glamorgan (Porthcawl) (Spencer, 1972: 17), East Suffolk and South Devon (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: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Mongolia (Spencer, 1976: 54), Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.