Phytomyza nigritella Zetterstedt, 1848
[Diptera: Agromyzidae]


Phytomyza nigritella Zetterstedt, 1848. Dipt. Scand. 7: 2816.
Phytomyza nigritella Zetterstedt, 1848; Spencer, 1976. Fauna ent. Scand. 5(1): 456-8, figs 798-801.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Included in Spencer (1972b: 95), but subsequently re-identified as Chromatomyia ramosa Hendel (Spencer, 1976: 46).

Hosts in Britain:

Dipsacaceae      
Succisa pratensis Devil's-bit Scabious Pitkin and Plant

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown. Not included in Spencer (1990).

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Added to British checklist by Henshaw in Chandler, 1998. Recorded from East Sussex (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 Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 456), Czech Republic, ? French mainland, Spanish mainland and The Netherlands (Martinez, in Fauna Europaea).

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

Succisa pratensis

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.



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