BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

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

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Chromatomyia aprilina Pupa 13 July 2002 Berks England 26

Suggested Literature

Chromatomyia aprilina may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
ACALYPTRATA
(acalypterate flies)
AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Chromatomyia aprilina is associated with:

larva Lonicera periclymenum - Honeysuckle (Caprifoliaceae) larva mines leaf Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine initially stellate, later linear, upper surface sections apparently disconnected where feeding occurs on the lower surface; frass in conspicuous black strips]
puparium Lonicera periclymenum - Honeysuckle (Caprifoliaceae) puparium has been found in leaf-mine Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972

There may be more taxa associated with Chromatomyia aprilina listed at higher taxonomic level

CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Chromatomyia aprilina:

Chromatomyia aprilina may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

References

Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae