Food Plant: unknown Elsewhere: Salix aurita (Eared Willow), S.repens (Creeping Willow)

Egg:

Mine:

Notes: Forms small cylindrical galls on young twigs. Pupariation is near the surface and the front segments of the puparium project througn the epidermis. Discovered as new to Britain (Gibbs, 2020).

Recording Grade: 5

Data:

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References:
Gibbs D (2020), Hexomyza cecidogena (Hering) (Diptera, Ahromyzidae) new to Britain, Dipterist's Digest 27: 139-142
Papp L & Cerny M (20150 Agromyzidae (diptera of Hungary) 1 Agromyzinae 172-173
Spencer KA (1976), The Agromyzidae (Diptera0 of Fennoscandia and Denmark