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Parallelomma vittatum
(a leaf-mining dung fly)
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Parallelomma vittatum (Meigen) (a leaf-mining dung fly)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 31 May 2006
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: A
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Larva
Record Summary: Larvae in blotch mines on Solomon's Seal
Associated organism: in live, blotch-mined leaf of Polygonatum multiflorum
Identification Notes: Eggs 1mm long, white, cylindrical, winged along each side with punctate area along base of wings. 6 or 8 eggs laid side-to-side on underside of leaf. Blotch mine starts from eggs and widens across leaf. Communal larvae feed side-to-side in a row at end of mine.

Left leaf and pupariated 2 June 06. Puparia 4-4.5mm long (which is very small for a female which lays 6-8 eggs 1mm long!)

Not reared. Robbins, 1990 says this is the only leaf miner in Polygonatum, but the mine starts from a batch of eggs so it is communal from the first.
Photo Summary: Ova, leaf mine, larva, puparium

Images etc

magnified photograph Eggs batch at start of mine - enlarged 500 by 400 pixels
magnified photograph Eggs batch at start of mine - enlarged 500 by 430 pixels
magnified photograph Eggs batch at start of mine - highly enlarged 500 by 334 pixels
magnified photograph Eggs batch at start of mine - highly enlarged Good 500 by 353 pixels
magnified photograph Eggs batch at start of mine - highly enlarged Good 500 by 396 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 246 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 288 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 411 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - dorsal view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 224 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - dorso-lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 345 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 195 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 365 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 311 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged Good 500 by 308 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 308 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 423 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 264 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - latero-ventral view - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 274 pixels
magnified photograph Larva - ventral view - close-up - highly enlarged Good 500 by 323 pixels
naked eye photograph Larvae feeding at tip of mine - transmitted light - close-up - enlarged 486 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Leaf mine - leaf lower surface - close-up 500 by 267 pixels
naked eye photograph Leaf mine - leaf lower surface - transmitted light - close-up 500 by 235 pixels
naked eye photograph Leaf mine - leaf upper surface - close-up 500 by 281 pixels
naked eye photograph Leaf mine - leaf upper surface - transmitted light - close-up 500 by 250 pixels
naked eye photograph Mined leaf 500 by 214 pixels
magnified photograph Puparia - enlarged 500 by 329 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium - dorsal view - highly enlarged 500 by 208 pixels
magnified photograph Puparium - ventral view - highly enlarged 500 by 205 pixels
microscope photograph Puparium - anterior end - dorsal view - cleared - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Puparium - anterior end - ventral view - cleared - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Puparium - posterior end - dorsal view - cleared - magnified 500 by 377 pixels
microscope photograph Puparium - posterior end - ventral view - cleared - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Puparium - ventral view - cleared - magnified 500 by 215 pixels

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