Species Account for Geomyza apicalis
Geomyza apicalis (Meigen, 1830)
Diptera: other groups: Opomyzidae
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Essex Red Data List comment
Recorded from 6 out of 57x10km.sq. records in county
Species text
This is a small fly with a darkened wing tip. European literature suggests that this is a species of dry habitats, including coastal dunes, but British localities do not all fit this pattern with habitats including grazing marsh, a shaded Equisetum slope, a reed-bed by an estuary, dunes and a sewage farm. Records are from Kent, London, Herts, Cambs, Norfolk, Humberside, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland. Larvae develop in stems and middle shoots of grasses, though exact host plants are uncertain (Recorder species account). In Essex there are records from the Lower Lee (Del Smith, pers. comm.), Aveley Bay (Harvey 2000) and Belton Hills (Harvey 2001) and Tollesbury Wick (Harvey, 2004e). References
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