Phytomyza

Eiseman, Charles S. & Lonsdale, Owen, 2018, New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species, Zootaxa 4479 (1), pp. 1-156 : 94

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:93C84828-6EEF-4758-BEA1-97EEEF115245

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997974

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D287EF-FFFD-E417-A8E5-53FB43DEFC26

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Phytomyza
status

 

Phytomyza View in CoL View at ENA sp. 5

( Fig. 221 View FIGURES 217–224 )

Material examined. MASSACHUSETTS: Hampshire Co., Cummington , 10.vi.2015, em. 16.iii.2016, C.S. Eiseman, ex Caltha palustris , #CSE2247, CNC654248 View Materials (1♀) .

Host. Ranunculaceae : Caltha palustris L.

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 221 View FIGURES 217–224 ) Upper surface, gradually widening, entirely linear; whitish with diffuse brown discoloration; frass black, initially in widely spaced grains, later in alternating irregular strips.

Puparium. Black; formed outside the mine.

Comments. This is the first published record of an agromyzid reared from Caltha in North America. Spencer (1969) reported two leaf mines from Canada that were attributed to undetermined Phytomyza species, one of them a short linear mine that widened considerably at the end, and one a dark brown blotch along the leaf margin. Four Caltha -feeding Phytomyza species are known in Europe, of which only P. calthophila Hering forms an entirely linear mine (Ellis 2017). The adult from Massachusetts does not match the description of any of these, or of several undescribed Caltha feeders known from Canada (Lonsdale, unpublished data). It is entirely dark with just 1 ors and 1 ori, with a slightly medially widened orbital plate.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

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