Liriomyza richardii ( Esposito & Prado, 1993 )

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 : 172

Liriomyza richardii ( Esposito & Prado, 1993)

Galiomyza richardii Esposito & Prado, 1993: 241

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.0– 1.2 mm. Head, face and antenna black; mesonotum and scutellum black; legs black; calypter yellowish, fringe yellowish. Aedeagus (Fig. 7–9 in Esposito & Prado 1993): basiphallus slightly sclerotized with extension distally; mesophallus short and globose; distiphallus cup-like, about twice length of mesophallus, enlarged in distal half, forming a pair of slender projections distally; epandrium with a pair of spines in the inner margin; surtylus with a spine apically.

Host-plant. Rubiaceae— Richardia brazilienses Gomes.

Distribution. Brazil.

Material examined. Brazil, Pará state, Belém: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), 1º26′10.4″S, 48º26′57.2″W, 08-II-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♂) ; same loca- tion, 08-II-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♀); same location, 19-X-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♀) ; same location, 19-X-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♂) ; same location, 18-III-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♂) ; same location, 18-III-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♀) ; same location, 09-XI-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Richardia brazilienses (♂) .

Comments. Among the Neotropical Liriomyza species with a predominantly black body, L. richardii can be easily differentiated by an entirely black antenna, while in the other species the first flagellomere is yellowish. Only L. richardii , L. morio (Brischke) and L. schmidti (Aldrich) have been recorded mining Rubiaceae species until now ( Benavent-Corai et al. 2005).