Calycomyza dryas Monteiro & Esposito, 2017

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

Calycomyza dryas Monteiro & Esposito, 2017

Calycomyza dryas Monteiro & Esposito, 2017: 578 .

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.7–1.8 mm. Fronto-orbital brownish to upper fronto-orbital seta, distinctly yellow below; face greyish; pedicel brown; leg brown, with apex of femur and base of tibia yellow in the fore leg; calypter white with margin black, fringe black. Aedeagus (Fig. 12–14 in Monteiro & Eposito 2017): basiphallus slightly sclerotized; mesophallus claviform, with a digitiform projection basally; subtriangular sclerite present between mesophallus and distiphallus; distiphallus compact, fused in basal half, apically forming two tubules rotated in opposite directions.

Host-plant. Lamiaceae— Hyptis mutabilis (Rich.) .

Distribution. Brazil

Material examined. BRAZIL, Pará state, Belém: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRA- PA), 1º26′06.4″S, 48º26′58.1″W, 25-I-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (♂) ; same loca- tion, 25-I-1994, ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (♂); Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia ( UFRA), 1º27′13.8″S, 48º26′43.8″W, 11-II-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (♀) ; Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia ( UFRA), 1º27′13.8″S, 48º26′43.8″W 15-V-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (♀) ; Parque Zoobotânico do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi ( MPEG), 1º27′09.9″S, 48º28′35.6″W, 01-II-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (3 ♂)

Comments. The shape of the mines of Calycomyza dryas is similar to those of C. hyptidis Spencer. However , the shape of the aedeagus differentiates the two species.