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Chromatomyia aprilina
(a leaf-mining fly)
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Chromatomyia aprilina (Goureau, 1851) (a leaf-mining fly)

Date: 13 July 2002
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 13/07/2002[C]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Pupa
Record Summary: Leaf miner on Honeysuckle
Associated organism: underside living leaf of Lonicera periclymenum
Identification Notes: Mine commences star-shaped.
Puparium pale, within mine on underside of leaf.
2 puparia darkening to black in silvery skin prior to emergence of 3 parasitic hymenoptera on 21 July 02.

Images etc

magnified photograph Hymenopteran parasite - upper surface 500 by 471 pixels
magnified photograph Hymenopteran parasite - under surface 500 by 471 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 397 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 70 Kb 372 by 444 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 345 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 326 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 500 by 489 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 363 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 346 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 317 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf upperside - enlarged 307 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf underside - enlarged - with puparium 405 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf underside - enlarged - with puparium 479 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - leaf underside - enlarged 64 Kb 484 by 498 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - transmitted light - magnified 500 by 368 pixels
magnified photograph Mine - transmitted light - magnified 500 by 407 pixels
magnified photograph Mined leaf - underside - with puparium 330 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Mined leaves - uppersides 500 by 341 pixels
magnified photograph Mined leaves - undersides 500 by 347 pixels
magnified photograph Parasitised? puparium - magnified 500 by 325 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium - epidermis peeled away and puparium turned over - magnified 500 by 252 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium - magnified 500 by 244 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium in leaf lower epidermis - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium in leaf lower epidermis - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium on leaf - epidermis peeled away - magnified 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium on leaf - epidermis peeled away - magnified 500 by 400 pixels

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