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Species Pegomya flavifrons

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
No Taxon (Pegomya group)
Genus Pegomya
No Taxon (Subgenus Pegomya)
No Taxon (bicolor section)
Species flavifrons (Pegomya flavifrons)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eriphia flavifrons Walker, 1849
Range
Holarctic south to California and North Carolina in mountains
Food
"The species is known in Europe and Japan as a multivoltine leaf-miner on a wide range of Caryophyllaceae, and was once bred in Germany from Celosia (an ornamental of tropical origin belonging to the Amaranthaceae). Probably most, if not all, Caryophyllaceae with leaves large enough for the larvae to enter are suitable as food-plants." (Griffiths, 1982)
Internet References
Species page (Pitkin et al. 2016)(1)
Works Cited
1.Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 January, 2013 - 11:01am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 25 November, 2016 - 10:21am

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