Cerodontha pygmaea (Meigen, 1830)
(a leaf-mining fly)

Interactions where Cerodontha pygmaea is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			POACEAE	grasses, couch	Poales	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/	Poaceae	grasses, couch			leaf		Sole
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			POACEAE	grasses, couch	Poales	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/	Poaceae	grasses, couch			leaf-mine		Sole
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Molinia caerulea	Purple Moor-grass	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Molinia caerulea/	Molinia caerulea	purple moor-grass	?		leaf
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Molinia caerulea	Purple Moor-grass	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Molinia caerulea/	Molinia caerulea	purple moor-grass	?		leaf-mine
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Brachypodium sylvaticum	False Brome, False-brome	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Brachypodium sylvaticum/	Brachypodium sylvaticum	false brome, false-brome			leaf		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Brachypodium sylvaticum	False Brome, False-brome	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Brachypodium sylvaticum/	Brachypodium sylvaticum	false brome, false-brome			leaf-mine		Major
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Bromus	a genus of bromes	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Bromus/	Bromus	a genus of bromes			leaf		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Bromus	a genus of bromes	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Bromus/	Bromus	a genus of bromes			leaf-mine		Major
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Dactylis glomerata	Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Dactylis glomerata/	Dactylis glomerata	cock’s foot, cock's-foot			leaf		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Dactylis glomerata	Cock’s Foot, Cock’s-foot	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Dactylis glomerata/	Dactylis glomerata	cock’s foot, cock's-foot			leaf-mine		Major
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Deschampsia	a genus of hair-grasses	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Deschampsia/	Deschampsia	a genus of hair-grasses			leaf		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Deschampsia	a genus of hair-grasses	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Deschampsia/	Deschampsia	a genus of hair-grasses			leaf-mine		Major
larva (communal)		communal larva mines leaf			Festuca	fescue grasses	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly		communal		larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Festuca/	Festuca	fescue grasses			leaf		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf-mine			Festuca	fescue grasses	Poales: Poaceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Cerodontha pygmaea/	Cerodontha pygmaea	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Festuca/	Festuca	fescue grasses			leaf-mine		Major

Author & Year	Title	Source
Spencer, K.A., 1972	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 5(g), 136pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly)
Genus	Cerodontha (a genus of leaf-mining flies)
Family	AGROMYZIDAE (leaf-mining flies)
Superfamily	OPOMYZOIDEA (a superfamily of acalypterate flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Cerodontha pygmaea is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly)

Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Cerodontha
(a genus of leaf-mining flies)

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Cerodontha pygmaea (a leaf-mining fly):

Cerodontha
(a genus of leaf-mining flies)

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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