Phytomyza albipennis Fallén, 1823
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]


Phytomyza albipennis Fallén, 1823b. Phytomyzides et Ochtidiae Sveciae : 4.
Phytomyza albipennis Fallén, 1823b; Spencer, 1972. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 71, 91 (fig. 306), 92.
Napomyza albipennis (Fallén, 1823b); Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 331-2, figs 597-9.
Phytomyza albipennis Fallén, 1823b; Zlobin, 1994. Dipterological Research. 5: PAGE.


Lifestyle: Unknown, possibly feeds as internal stem-borer (Spencer, 1972: 92).

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Adults have been caught on Ranunculus (Spencer, 1972: 92).

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: May.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widesrpead in Britain including Kent (Wrotham), Berkshire (Wytham), Buckinghamshire (Bovingdon) and East Lothian (Aberlady) (Spencer, 1972: 92); Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, East Kent, Glamorgan, Huntingdonshire, Surrey and West Kent (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) and the Channel Is. (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Spain, [former] Yugoslavia (Spencer, 1976: 332), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 566), Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, The Netherlands and Yugoslavia (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Host species unknown

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.




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