Food Plant: Angelica sylvestris (Angelica), Aegopodium podagraria (Ground Elder)

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & early autumn

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: An upper surface linear mine, starting lower surface, which can widen and form an elonagted blotch. Pupariation is outside the leaf and the puparium is black.

Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5

Image:© Brian Pitkin

References:
Hering, M (1957) - Bestimmungstabellen der Blattminen von Europa.
Papp L 7 Cerny M (2019) - The Agromyzidae of Hungary, 4, Phytomyzinae 111
Robbins, J (1990) - A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire.
Spencer, K A (1976) - The Agromyzidae of Fennoscandia and Denmark.
Spencer, K.A (1972) - "Diptera: Agromyzidae" Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Royal Entomological Society of London.