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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Chirosia » Chirosia filicis
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Anthomyiidae, (interrupted fern, front) - Chirosia filicis
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Anthomyiidae, (interrupted fern, front) - Chirosia filicis
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 18, 2012
Collected leaf miner on interrupted fern, Osmunda claytoniana
U tube, feeding: http://youtu.be/snCr8_lkEU4

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Anthomyiidae, (interrupted fern, front) - Chirosia filicis Anthomyiidae, (interrupted fern, back) - Chirosia filicis Anthomyiidae, larva in mine - Chirosia filicis Anthomyiidae, larva - Chirosia filicis Anthomyiidae, puparium - Chirosia filicis Braconidae on Anthomyiidae, parasitoid wasp
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 2 February, 2013 - 5:36am
Last updated 21 December, 2019 - 12:11pm

Moved
Moved from Chirosia.
… Charley Eiseman, 15 March, 2018 - 1:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
Note the white egg at the beginning of the mine on the underside of the frond (second photo). As noted under the photo of the braconid: The host is a Chirosia (Anthomyiidae) that has never been reared (or documented in any literature as far as I know). The larvae burrow in soil and overwinter before emerging as adults. I have several in my refrigerator, waiting for spring.

Do you have any other photos of unidentified leaf mines hiding in places other than the 'unidentified leaf mines' section?
… Charley Eiseman, 13 February, 2013 - 5:27pm login or register to post comments

 
I increased the size of
the white egg, and I still wouldn't have recognized it as such.
Yes, I do have some old, unsuccessful rearings of leaf miners that I've never posted to BG.
… MJ Hatfield, 15 March, 2018 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

 
That question
(from five years ago) was more asking about leaf mines that are on BG but posted to "Flies" or "Moths" where I wouldn't know to look for them. Doesn't really matter, since I've since learned to just periodically go to your profile and scroll through all your recent photos, but as you've probably noticed, I get to them much more quickly when they're posted to "unidentified leaf mines."
… Charley Eiseman, 15 March, 2018 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

 
oh golly
I didn't even LOOK at the date.
Sorry. I guess I don't have to go through the past years looking.
But now I do know about all the unidentified "sign" categories.
… MJ Hatfield, 15 March, 2018 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

 
oh golly
I didn't even LOOK at the date.
Sorry.
But now I do know about all the unidentified "sign" categories.
… MJ Hatfield, 15 March, 2018 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

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