Phytobia cambii ( Hendel, 1931 )

Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, Zootaxa 1725, pp. 61-66 : 63

Phytobia cambii ( Hendel, 1931)

Dizygomyza (Dendromyza) cambii Hendel, 1931: 24 .

Material seen. RUSSIA: Murmansk Prov., 1 male, Monchegorsk, 20.07.1995 (leg. Kozlov); Leningrad Prov., 1 female, Luga Distr., Jashchera, 0 7.06.1966 (leg. Stackelberg); Smolensk Prov., 1 female, "Smolenskoe poozer'e' National Park, 0 4.06.1992 (leg. Zlobin); Voronezh Prov., 1female, Ternovskiy Distr, Savalsk forest, 0 2.06.1953 (leg. Stark); Irkutsk Prov., 1 female, Baikal Lake, mouth of Khara-Murin river, 10.07.1984 (leg. Zlobin).

Distribution. Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain ( Scotland), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden. New to Russia (North and Central European Territories, East Siberia).

Remarks. Dr. M. von Tschirnhaus (1992) established synonymy of Phytobia betulae ( Kangas, 1935) with P. c a m b i i ( Hendel, 1931). Sasakawa (1994) recorded P. betulae from Japan and in fact he re-surrected this name from synonymy. I reject this proposal because Tschirnhaus’s opinion is based on rearing experiments (Tschirnhaus, personal communication).