Food Plant: Leycesteria formosa (Flowering Nutmeg), Lonicera periclymenum (Honeysuckle), Symphoricarpos rivularis (Snowberry)
Mine: April - June
Notes: Leaf mine is formed in the young tender leaf. Larva forming long white mine which widens. The pupation is external and the posterior spiracles have a distinctive horn-like process within the ellipse of bulbs. The larva is quite plain, but with distinctive spiracles.
Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 4
Data: 02.v.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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