Food Plant: Phyllostachys aureosulcata spectabilis (Bamboo)
Mine: December- January (in Europe August-October)
Notes: The mines are pale-green intially (as shown), but turn brown with ageing. They are uppersurface and broad. A large leaf may contain several mines, which may merge. Pupation is in the mine. The species was first described from Japan in 1993 and subsequently from Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic. This record is the first confirmed record in the UK (gen det Miloš Cerný) and the current northernmost limit of its distribution. In Europe this species also mines P.nuda, P.parvifolia, P.atrovaginata and Fargesia sp.
Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5
Data: 20, 23 & 29.xii. 2014, a garden centre, Carkeel, Cornwall (VC2).
Image:© Bob Heckford
References:
Cerný M & Rohácek
J,
2015, Cerodontha (Poemyza) unisetiorbita Zlobin, 1993 (Diptera: Agromyzidae),
a leaf-miner on bamboo: first records from Central Europe. – Acta
Musei Silsesiae Scientiarum naturalium 64: 91-96.
Heckford,
R.J, 2017, Cerodontha (Poemyza) unisetiorbita Zlobin (Diptera, Agromyzidae),
an adventive species new to the British Isles, Dipterists Digest
24: 49-51
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