The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Thrypticus bellus Loew, 1869
[Diptera: Dolichopodidae]


Thrypticus bellus Loew, 1869b. Beschr. europ. Dipt. 1: 303.


Leaf-mine: Details unknown. Pupation internal.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Juncaceae      
Juncus     Chandler, 1978: 221

Hosts elsewhere:

Juncaceae      
Juncus     Dyte, 1993
Juncus     Hering, 1957a
Juncus     Nederlandse bladmineerders
Phragmites     Dyte, 1993
Phragmites     Hering, 1957a

Time of year - mines: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain & Ireland: Widespread including Cambridge, Dorset, Durham, East Kent, Forfar, Hereford, Hunts, Mid-west York, North Lincoln, North Wilts, Oute, Hebrides, Oxford, South Hants, South Lancaster, West Cornwall, West Kent, West Ross and West Suffolk (NBN Gateway distribution map - BRERC, DF, NE and SNH).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Pollett, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

NBN Distribution maps of known host species:

Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in Europe including The Netherlands (de Meijere, 1939), Belgium (Meuffels, Pollet & Grootaert, 1991), Austria, ? Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greeze, Hungary, Italian mainland, ? Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, ? East, North and ? Northwest, Slovakia, ? Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, ? Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Pollett, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded from East Palaearctic, North Africa and Oriental region (Pollett, 2004 in Fauna Europaea).

Parasitoids: Unknown.



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British leafminers
Fauna Europaea [136543]
NBN Gateway
Nederlandse bladmineerders

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Last updated 14-Dec-2008  Brian Pitkin