Ophiomyia cunctata (Hendel, 1920)

Guglya, Yu. A., 2014, Mining Flies Of The Genus Ophiomyia (Diptera, Agromyzidae) Of Eastern Ukraine And Adjacent Territories: Review Of The Species Without A Fasciculus, Vestnik Zoologii (Vestn. Zool.) 48 (1), pp. 51-66 : 54-55

Ophiomyia cunctata (Hendel, 1920) (fig. 18–24)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Kharkiv, mines with larva on Sonchus oleraceus 14.08.2010, 11.09.2010 — imago, 1 ♂ ; Kharkiv, centre, 09.08.2011, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ; Sokolniki , mines with larva on Cirsium vulgare , 10.07.2011 — pupa, 20.07.2011 — imago, 1 ♀ ; Near Kuzemin , ex pupa — 16– 19.08.2011, 4 ♂, 1 ♀ ; near Kuripchine , 27.06.2010, 2 ♀ ; Borisovka , 05– 07.07.2011, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ; the same locality, mines with larva on Picris hieracioides 06.07.2011, 17– 18.07.2011 — imago, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ .

Рис. 18–24. O. cunctata (Hendel) : 18, 19 — голова самца; 20 — фаллюс, вентральный вид; 21 — то же, латеральный вид; 22 — голова самки; 23 — левая лопасть восьмого стернита; 24 — сперматека. Масштабная линейка 0,1 мм.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n. Head (fig. 18, 19, 22). Orbit not projected above eye in profile; 3 orb s, 2 fr s; frorb sta long, mainly proclinate, a few in area of fr s reclinate; keel absent; lunule rounded; ocellar triangle reaching the level between 1st and 2nd orb s; vibrissa present in both sexes; maximal height of eye 5.0 × maximal height of gena;1st flagellomere slightly longer than wide, with short white pubescence.

Wing. Costa reaching M; last section of M slightly shorter or equal to penultimate; calypter and fringe grey; margin black. Length of wing 2.0 mm.

Mesonotum black or bluish, shining (anterior view); 2 dc; ac 2 nearest to sctsctl sut and 6 at level of 2nd dc; halter brown; legs black.

Male genitalia (fig. 20, 21). Phallus 0.22 mm long. Basiphallus V-shaped in lateral view and G-shaped in dorsal view, reaching 0.1 length of distiphallus and not reaching basal margin of endophallus. Distiphallus 1.85 × as long as basiphallus.

Female terminalia (fig. 23, 24). Both spermathecae equal, elongate with apex narrower, 1.6 × as long as wide in a widest part. Proximal and ventral margins of egg guide with wellmarked sharp teeth, directed posteriorly. Medial margin without any scales.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Widespread through much of Europe ( Spencer, 1976), Ukraine ( Guglya, 2011, 2012), Turkey ( Civelek et al., 2009).

H o s t p l a n t. Asteraceae : Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. , Sonchus oleraceus L., Lactuca sp. , Picris hieracioides L. ( Spencer, 1976), Taraxacum officinale Webb ex Wigg. , Mycelis muralis (L.) Dumort., Lapsana communis L. ( Pakalniškis, 1994), Bellis , Crepis , Hypochoeris , Picris , Prenanthes ( Benavent-Corai et al., 2005) .

B i o n o m i c s. Larva feeds within the midrib, with short offshoots into the leaf blade. Pupation takes place inside of the leaf in the base of the midrib ( Spencer, 1976).