Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015

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 : 153

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A0A2E6C2-6456-4F99-A3CE-1958A271E1A4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3512272
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scientific name	Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015
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Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015 View in CoL

Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015: 494 View in CoL View Cited Treatment .

Diagnosis. Wing length 2.1–2.5 mm. Mesonotum glossy black; prescutellar setae present; fore tibia with one lateral seta; mid tibia with two lateral setae; abdomen brownish-black; calypter whitish, fringe white; halter yellowish. Aedeagus (Fig. 3–4 in Monteiro et al. 2015): mesophallus rounded and covered with many spine-like processes; distiphallus sclerotized, enlarged and triangular; hypandrium without apodeme; surstylus with five spines truncated; cercus without spines.

Host-plant. Combretaceae — Terminalia catappa L.

Distribution. Brazil.

Material examined. Brazil, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará ( UFPA), 1º28′17.2″S, 48º26′44.7″W, 16-IV-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (2 ♀,) GoogleMaps ; same location, 30-IV- 2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (4 ♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 30-X-2014, N. Monteiro [col- lector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 03-X-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (2 ♂) GoogleMaps ; 4 ♂ GoogleMaps , same location, 28-XI-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (2 ♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 02-X-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 04-XII-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 28-XI-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (2 ♀) GoogleMaps ; same location, 04-XII-2014, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Terminalia catappa (2 ♀) GoogleMaps .

Comments. Japanagromyza sasakawai is similar to Japanagromyza species that have prescutellar setae and a well-sclerotized tubular aedeagus, but can be differentiated from those by the globose mesophallus with spine-like processes (similar to J. hymenoedemia Sasakawa and J. crinicolis Lonsdale ) and the enlarged triangular distiphallus. Larvae form irregular blotches on the surface of the leaf with frass deposited on the edge of the mine.