Liriomyza valladaresae Carvalho-Filho, Almeida & Esposito, 2016

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 : 175

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scientific name	Liriomyza valladaresae Carvalho-Filho, Almeida & Esposito, 2016
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Liriomyza valladaresae Carvalho-Filho, Almeida & Esposito, 2016 View in CoL

Liriomyza flagellae Valladares, 1986 View in CoL ; Spencer, 1990: 67 (nomen nudum); Martinez & Etienne, 2002: 37 (nomen nudum). Liriomyza valladaresae, Carvalho-Filho et al., 2016: 446 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Wing length 2.6–3.2 mm. Head, face and antenna pale orange; mesonotum predominantly black, with dark marking almost reaching the scutellum; scutellum yellowish, sometimes with small black spot laterally; calypter light brown, fringe brown. Aedeagus (Fig. 4–6 in Carvalho-Filho et al. 2016): basiphallus slightly sclerotized with two extensions distally; mesophallus fused to distiphallus, forming two long sinuous tubules.

Host-plants. Amaranthaceae— Alternanthera tenella Colla , Amaranthus viridis L.

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil.

Material examined. Brazil, Pará, Belém: Jardim Botânico Bosque Rodrigues Alves , 1º25′48.2″S, 48º27′23.5″W, 18-XII-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♂) GoogleMaps ; Campus de Pesquisa do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , 1º26′56.3″S, 48º26′43.2″W, 01-III-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♀) GoogleMaps ; Universidade Federal do Pará ( UFPA), 1º28′17.2″S, 48º26′44.7″W, 20-VIII-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 08-II-2017, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 22-XII-2016, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♂) GoogleMaps ; Passagem Jáder Barba II, 1º25′06.9″S, 48º26′34.2″W, 20-VII-2016, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Alternanthera tenella (♀) GoogleMaps .

Comments. Liriomyza valladaresae is similar to Liriomyza equiseti de Meijere in that the aedeagus forms a pair of sinuous tubules on the distiphallus, and it is differentiated mostly by the shape of the surstylus (with an apical spine in L. equiseti and no spines in L. valladaresae ).