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Vegetable leafminer

Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, 1938

Status not recordedinsects

The vegetable leafminer (Liriomyza sativae) is a species in the family Agromyzidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the vegetable leafminer

Weight
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Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the vegetable leafminer live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the vegetable leafminer as introduced in 4 countries, and flagged as invasive in 3 of them.

  1. Chinainvasive
  2. Japaninvasive
  3. Turkmenistaninvasive
  4. Dominica

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the vegetable leafminer endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the vegetable leafminer classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyAgromyzidae
  6. genusLiriomyza
  7. SpeciesLiriomyza sativae Blanchard, 1938

Synonyms Agromyza subpusilla, Liriomyza canomarginis, Liriomyza guytona, Liriomyza minutiseta, Liriomyza munda, Liriomyza propepusilla, Liriomyza properpusilla, Liriomyza pullata, Liriomyza verbenicola

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • mineuse maraichèreFrench
  • トマトハモグリバエJapanese
  • grønnsakminerflueNorwegian Bokmål
  • แมลงวันหนอนชอนใบผักThai
  • Mouche mineuse des légumesFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the vegetable leafminer

Other species in the same genus Liriomyza.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the vegetable leafminer an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the vegetable leafminer as invasive in 3 countries: China, Japan and Turkmenistan. It lists it as introduced in 4 in all.

What kind of animal is the vegetable leafminer?

The vegetable leafminer (Liriomyza sativae) belongs to the family Agromyzidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Vegetable leafminer (Liriomyza sativae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/vegetable-leafminer

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“Vegetable leafminer (Liriomyza sativae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/vegetable-leafminer.

BibTeX
@misc{vegetable_leafminer_2026,
  title = {Vegetable leafminer (Liriomyza sativae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/vegetable-leafminer},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}