Food Plant: Symphytum officinale (Common Comfrey)
Mine: September
Notes: Several larvae feed together to make a corridor (shown bottom left) which leads to a large blotch mine. A local miner
Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5
Data: 14.ix.2017, Wicken, Cambs, VC29
Image:© Rob Edmunds
References:
Hering,
M (1957) - Bestimmungstabellen der Blattminen von Europa.
Spencer, K.A (1972) - "Diptera: Agromyzidae" Handbooks for the
Identification
of British Insects, Royal Entomological Society of London.
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