Melanagromyza astragali Spencer, 1976

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 : 456-457

Melanagromyza astragali Spencer, 1976

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Road to Antalovetska Polyana, 5.05.2018, 4 ♂; Plishka Mt., 6.05.2018, 2 ♂, 2 ♀ ; Kamianytsia , 7.05.2018, 5 ♂; “Skalka”, 7.05.2018, 1 ♀ ; 2–4 km E Dilove, motley grass along Potik Bilyi , 11.05.2018, 1 ♂; ibid., 20.06.2018, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ; Shoimul Mt. , motley grass on a slope, 15.06.2018, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ; Zamkova Hill , motley grass near the hospital, 23.07.2017, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ; near Luhy , motley grass, 11.08.2019, 1 ♀ .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. British Isles, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Switzerland ( Papp & Černý, 2015). In Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Poltava and Sumy Regions ( Guglya, 2015, 2016 a, 2017); Transcarpathia (first record).

Bionomics. This species is common in most of Ukraine. Ukrainian material dates from 4 May to 11 August and occurs on various localities, where its host plant Astragalus spp . ( Fabaceae ) grows, but one specimen was caught in a small desert where only Genista tinctoria (Fabaceae) was found.