Chromatomyia ramosa

Family

Subfamily

Genus

Species

Chromatomyia ramosa (Hendel, 1923)

Mine

Larva feeds mostly in the midrib, with short corridors into the leaf blade. Pupariation within the midrib.

Host Plants

• Dipsacus
• Knautia
• Scabiosa
• Succisa

Confusion Species

Liriomyza strigata.

Recording Grade

2

National Status

Local.

Puparium

Whitish-yellow. Often several in one midrib.

Adult

Head: frons up to 2x width of eye, normally distinctly projecting above eye in profile; 2 equal ors, 2 ori; jowls 2/5 height of eye, cheeks conspicuously broad below eye; third antennal segment round.
Mesonotum: 3+1 dc; acr variable, 2-4 rows.
Wing: 2.2-3.2 mm; second costal section 2.3-3x length of fourth.
Colour: frons brownish above, more blackish towards lunule; orbits and cheeks grey, jowls more brownish; face and all antennal segments black; mesonotum matt grey, sides of thorax greyish-black; legs black. knees scarcely differentiated; squamae grey, margin and fringe black.