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Botanophila discreta
 
 
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Synonyms
Anthomyia discreta Meigen, 1826
Pegomyia discreta (Meigen, 1826)
Pegomyia discreta discreta (Meigen, 1826)
Hylemyia discreta (Meigen, 1826)
Hylemyia discreta discreta (Meigen, 1826)
Botanophila discreta (Meigen, 1826)

Note: some authors regard the discreta taxon as a separate species from Botanophila striolata (see Ackland 2010). I provisionally follow this notion, although there appears to be no published scientific study that actually shows that the two taxa are separate species.

Ackland DM. 2010. Additions and changes to the British List of Anthomyiidae (Diptera). Dipterists Digest 17, 79-82.


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Biology
Die Larven ernähren sich von Hahnenfuß (Gattung Ranunculus), offenbar vorwiegend von den Wurzeln.


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