Pegomya haemorrhoum Zetterstedt, 1838
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]


Pegomya haemorrhoum Zetterstedt, 1838. Insecta Lapp. : 692.
Aricia transversalis Zetterstedt, 1845. Dipt. Scand. 4: 1538.


Leaf-mine: Mine without spiral or tightly wound loops. Mine shallow, dorsal or ventral, greenish in transmitted light (only in small leaves sometimes full depth, but then the frass, when corridor-like, always in separate grains). One or more egg shells at the beginning of the mine on the ventral surface of the leaf.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Ackland in Chandler (1978) did not indicate whether his host records were British or Foreign and are therefore included under 'Hosts in Britain' and 'Hosts elsewhere

Hosts in Britain:

Polygonaceae      
Rumex     Robbins, 1991: 70

? Rumex

acetosa Common Sorrel Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Rumex obtusifolius Broad-leaved Dock Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228

Hosts elsewhere:

Polygonaceae      

? Rumex

acetosa Common Sorrel Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Rumex obtusifolius Broad-leaved Dock Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
Rumex     Hering, 1957

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Warwickshire (Coventry and Stoke Park) (Robbins, 1991: 70); Banff, Caernarvonshire, Cumberland, Durham, East Kent, Easterness, Elgin, Glamorgan, Merionethshire, North Hampshire, Orkney, Surrey, West Suffolk and Westmorland (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 Andorra, Austria, ? Corsica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, ? Hungary, Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central and North, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in the East Palaearctic (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

NBN interactive distribution map(s) of known host species in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere:

Rumex acetosa, Rumex obtusifolius

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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