Phytomyza leucanthemi Hering, 1935
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]


Phytomyza leucanthemi Hering, 1935a. Blattminen Mittel- NordEuropas Lief 1: xi.
Phytomyza chrysanthivora Lundquist, 1949. Opusc. ent. 14: 49. [Synonymised by Spencer, 1976: 440].
Phytomyza leucanthemi Hering, 1935a; Spencer, 1972. Handbk ident. Br. Ins. 10(5g): 74 (fig. 245), 79, 112.
Phytomyza leucanthemi Hering, 1935a; Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 440, fig. 767.
Phytomyza leucanthemi Hering, 1935a; Spencer, 1990. Host specialization in the World Agromyzidae (Diptera) : 301, 304 (fig. 1173), 306.


Leaf-mine: Mine irregularly linear, whitish, distinctly widening, most frequently on lower leaves. Pupation external (Spencer, 1972: 79).

Long, slender corridor, gnerally upper-surface with a lower-surface beginning. Frass in irregular, but not conncted, grains. Pupation outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

A long, irregular galley which widens distinctly, upper surface, but often starting lower surface and sometimes forming a secondary blotch. Most frequently on lower leaves (British leafminers).

Larva: The larva is described by Hering (1954); posterior spiracles each with 18-20 bulbs.

Puparium: Black; posterior spiracles each with an irregular ellipse of some 20 bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 440).

Hosts in Britain:

Asteraceae      
? Leucanthemum x superbum   Robbins, 1991: 116, as Chrysanthemum maximum
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy British leafminers
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Mines in BMNH
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Robbins, 1991: 116
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Spencer, 1972: 112

Hosts elsewhere:

Asteraceae      
Chrysanthemum carinatum   Bladmineerders van Europa
Chrysanthemum corymbosum   Bladmineerders van Europa
Chrysanthemum indicum   Bladmineerders van Europa
Leucanthemum     Spencer, 1990: 301
Leucanthemum x superbum   Bladmineerders van Europa, as Leucanthemum maximum
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Spencer, 1976: 440
Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Bladmineerders van Europa

Time of year - mines: August.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread but local. Surrey (Box Hill), Hertfordshire (East Barnet), Perthshire (Killin) (Spencer, 1972: 79), Berkshire (Dinton Pastures), Hampshire (Fleet) (British leafminers), Warwickshire (Foleshill) (Robbins, 1991: 116); Cambridgeshire, South-west Yorkshire and Surrey
(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).

Also recorded from Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), 12 June 1985 at Castlecurragh, Co. Limerick, Ireland (H.C.J. Godfray).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread and not uncommon in many parts of Europe including Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 440), The Netherlands (Bladmineerders van Europa), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 574), ? Albania, Czech Republic, Denmark, French mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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

Leucanthemum x superbum, Leucanthemum vulgare

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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