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Pegomya flavifrons
Copyright © 2013 Charley Eiseman

Pegomya flavifrons
Battle Island, Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine, USA
July 14, 2012
Size: ~4 mm
Emerged from a leaf mine in mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum), collected 6/16/2012. Det. Michael Ackland.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 January, 2013 - 11:05am

Food plant
According to Griffiths' revision P. flavifrons probably eats any Caryophyllaceae with big enough leaves, and was once bred from Celosia (Amaranthaceae).
… John F. Carr, 23 January, 2013 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Big enough leaves...
seems to include just about anything. Chickweed leaves are tiny (maybe 1 cm by 0.5 cm), and these larvae moved freely from one leaf to another.
… Charley Eiseman, 23 January, 2013 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

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