Pegomya holosteae (Hering, 1924)
[Diptera: Anthomyiidae]


Hylemyia holosteae Hering, 1924b. Z. Morph. Okol. Tiere 2: 232.


Leaf-mine: Mine a very long and straight corridor, only after a change of leaf, blotch-like. Corridor first following leaf margin, turning round at the apex, then blotch like and running towards the leaf base. Frass often indistinctly delimited and faded, blackish green.

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 tentatively included under 'Hosts in Britain' and 'Hosts elsewhere'.

Hosts in Britain:

Caryophyllaceae      
? Cerastium alsine   Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Cerastium fontanum Common Mouse-ear Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Cerastium triviale   Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Stellaria holostea Greater Stitchwort Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228

Hosts elsewhere:

Caryophyllaceae      
Cerastium     Griffiths, 1982
? Cerastium alsine   Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Cerastium fontanum Common Mouse-ear Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Cerastium triviale   Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
? Stellaria holostea Greater Stitchwort Ackland in Chandler, 1978: 228
Stellaria     Hering, 1957
Stellaria     Griffiths, 1982

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Cambridgeshire, East Ross, North Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Norfolk (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, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Northwest, Spanish mainland and Sweden (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

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

Cerastium fontanum, Stellaria holostea

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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