Ophiomyia cunctata (Hendel, 1920)
(a leaf-mining fly)

Interactions where Ophiomyia cunctata is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Crepis	hawk’s-beards	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Crepis/	Crepis	hawk's-beards			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Crepis	hawk’s-beards	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Crepis/	Crepis	hawk's-beards			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Hypochaeris	cat’s-ears	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Hypochaeris/	Hypochaeris	cat's-ears			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Hypochaeris	cat’s-ears	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Hypochaeris/	Hypochaeris	cat's-ears			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Lapsana communis	Nipplewort	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lapsana communis/	Lapsana communis	nipplewort			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Lapsana communis	Nipplewort	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lapsana communis/	Lapsana communis	nipplewort			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Mycelis muralis	Wall Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Mycelis muralis/	Mycelis muralis	wall lettuce			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Mycelis muralis	Wall Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Mycelis muralis/	Mycelis muralis	wall lettuce			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Picris	ox-tongues	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Picris/	Picris	ox-tongues			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Picris	ox-tongues	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Picris/	Picris	ox-tongues			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Sonchus	sow thistles	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Sonchus/	Sonchus	sow thistles			leaf (midrib, lamina)
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Sonchus	sow thistles	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Sonchus/	Sonchus	sow thistles			leaf (base of midrib)
larva		larva mines leaf (midrib, lamina)			Taraxacum	dandelions	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Taraxacum/	Taraxacum	dandelions			leaf (midrib, lamina)		Major
puparium		puparium may be found in leaf (base of midrib)			Taraxacum	dandelions	Asterales: Asteraceae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Spencer, K.A., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Ophiomyia cunctata/	Ophiomyia cunctata	a leaf-mining fly				puparium	Plant / resting place / within			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Taraxacum/	Taraxacum	dandelions			leaf (base of midrib)		Major

Author & Year	Title	Source
Spencer, K.A., 1972	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 5(g), 136pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Spencer, K.A., 1976	The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 5 (parts 1 and 2), 606pp, Scandinavian Science Press

Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly)
Genus	Ophiomyia (a genus of leaf-mining flies)
Family	AGROMYZIDAE (leaf-mining flies)
Superfamily	OPOMYZOIDEA (a superfamily of acalypterate flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Ophiomyia cunctata is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly)

Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Ophiomyia cunctata (a leaf-mining fly):

Ophiomyia
(a genus of leaf-mining flies)

AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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