Melanagromyza aenea (Meigen, 1830)

Guglya, Yu., 2020, Mining Flies Of The Subfamily Agromyzinae (Diptera, Agromyzidae) Of Ukrainian Transcarpathia, With The Description Of Three New Species, Zoodiversity 54 (6), pp. 453-478 : 456

Melanagromyza aenea (Meigen, 1830)

Material examined. 3 km N Chop, floodplain meadow on the bank of Latoritsa River, 4.05.2018, 2 ♂, 4 ♀ ; road to Antalovetska Polyana , 5.05.2018, 8 ♀ ; 2 km SWW Vorochovo , 6.05.2018, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ; Plishka Mt. , 6.05.2018, 1 ♂, 5 ♀ ; 2–4 km E Dilove, motley grass along Potik Bilyi , 11.05.2018 and 14.06.2017, 3 ♀ .

Distribution. Widespread in Europe, recorded from Austria, Belgium, British Isles, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland ( Papp & Černý, 2015). In Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Poltava and Sumy Regions ( Guglya, 2011, 2015, 2016 a, 2017); Transcarpathia (first record).

Bionomics. Ukrainian collected material dates from 24 April to 14 June. It develops internally in stems Urtica dioica in one generation per year. This species is common in most of Ukraine but only in spring and early summer.