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

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Parallelomma vittatum? Ova, leaf mine, larva, puparium 31 May 2006 Berks England 6 22 5

Suggested Literature

Parallelomma vittatum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CALYPTRATA
(calypterate flies)
SCATHOPHAGIDAE
(dung flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Parallelomma vittatum is associated with:

Photos larva Polygonatum - Solomon’s-seals (Liliaceae) larva mines live leaf Minor Robbins, R., 1990 [including garden plants. Pupariates externally.]
Photos larva Orchidaceae - orchids solitary, then gregarious larva mines live leaf Robbins, R., 1990 [A few larvae mine individual corridors, then make a communal deep upper-surface blotch, but sometimes whole leaves may be mined out. Pupariates externally.]
Photos larva Orchis - a genus of orchids (Orchidaceae) solitary, then gregarious larva mines live leaf Robbins, R., 1990 [A few larvae mine individual corridors, then make a communal deep upper-surface blotch, but sometimes whole leaves may be mined out. Pupariates externally.]

There may be more taxa associated with Parallelomma vittatum listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Parallelomma vittatum:

Parallelomma vittatum may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

References

Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands

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