Calycomyza ecliptae Spencer, 1963

Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago, Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro & Esposito, Maria Cristina, 2019, Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil, Zootaxa 4624 (2), pp. 151-182 : 160-161

Calycomyza ecliptae Spencer, 1963

Phytobia (Calycomyza) ecliptae Spencer, 1963: 341, 1973b: 41 ; Martinez & Etienne, 2002: 29.

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.6–2.1 mm; Fronto-orbital plate predominantly brown, only yellow in the lower half; face greyish; pedicel yellowish; legs brown, with apex of femur and base of tibia yellow on fore leg; calypter white with margin black, fringe black. Aedeagus (Fig. 57a in Spencer 1963): mesophallus elongated, wider basally; distiphallus strongly sclerotized, forming two curved tubes fused basally.

Host-plant. Asteraceae— Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk.

Distribution. Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela ( Martinez & Etienne 2002).

Material examined. BRAZIL, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará ( UFPA), 1º28′25.0″S, 48º27′20.7″W, 10-II-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex lea of Eclipta alba (10 ♂) ; same location, 10-II-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex lea of Eclipta alba (12 ♂) ; same location, 21-V-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex lea of Eclipta alba (3 ♂) ; same location, 21-V-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Eclipta alba (6 ♂) ; same location, 11-IV-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex lea of Eclipta alba (2 ♂) ; same location, 11-IV-2015, N. Monteiro [collec- tor], ex lea of Eclipta alba (2 ♀) .

Comments. Calycomyza ecliptae is similar to the other species of this genus that have the distiphallus forming a pair of strongly sclerotized tubules, such as C. hyptidis Spencer and C. verbesinae Spencer , and it is differentiated primarily by the shape of the distiphallus. So far, the only known host-plant of this species is Eclipta alba , and larvae form irregular blotches on the surface of its leaves.