Delia platura

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Delia platura, Nebo, North Wales, July 2012 (17810923320).jpg

| image_caption = Delia platura at Nebo, North Wales (July 2012)

| genus = Delia

| species = platura

| authority = (Meigen, 1826)

| synonyms = *Anthomyia platura Meigen, 1826

• Hylemyia platura (Meigen, 1826)
• Chorthophila cilicrura Rondani, 1866
• Chortophila cilicrura Rondani, 1866

| synonyms_ref = {{cite book |last= Chandler|first= Peter J.|year= 1998|title= Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera|volume= 12 | series = Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |pages= 1–234 |publisher= Royal Entomological Society}}

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Delia platura, the seedcorn maggot or the bean seed fly, is a fly species in the family Anthomyiidae.[http://www7.inra.fr/hyppz/RAVAGEUR/6delpla.htm Delia platura at inra.fr (English)]

D. platura is an agricultural pest of peas and beans. It is a vector of bacteria that cause potato blackleg.{{cite journal | last1=Gallegly | first1=M E | last2=Barnett | first2=H L | title=Julian Gilbert Leach: Pioneer Leader in Plant Pathology | journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology | publisher=Annual Reviews | volume=27 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0066-4286 | doi=10.1146/annurev.py.27.090189.000343 | pages=35–41 | quote-page=35 | quote=Dr. Leach first became impressed with the role of insects in the development of plant diseases, and the potential for research in this field, when he began a study in 1923 of the role of the seed-corn maggot in the development of potato blackleg. This classic study, published in 1926 (5), illustrates how insects break down natural defense barriers, such as the wound periderm, while transmitting inoculum of the pathogen to the infection court. Further studies revealed the symbiotic relationship of the causal bacterium and the maggot (7).}}{{cite journal |last1=Rossmann |first1=Simeon |last2=Dees |first2=Merete Wiken |last3=Perminow |first3=Juliana |last4=Meadow |first4=Richard |last5=Brurberg |first5=May Bente |title=Soft Rot Enterobacteriaceae Are Carried by a Large Range of Insect Species in Potato Fields |journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology |date=15 June 2018 |volume=84 |issue=12 |pages=e00281-18 |doi=10.1128/AEM.00281-18|pmid=29625979 |pmc=5981085 |bibcode=2018ApEnM..84E.281R }} No-till fields are generally less attractive to egg-laying females.{{cite web |last1=Dean |first1=Ashley |last2=Hodgson |first2=Erin |title=Seedcorn Maggot |url=https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/encyclopedia/seedcorn-maggot |website=crops.extension.iastate.edu |publisher=Iowa State University |access-date=21 October 2024}}