Phytomyza lineata Lonsdale & Scheffer

Lonsdale, Owen, 2021, Manual of North American Agromyzidae (Diptera, Schizophora), with revision of the fauna of the " Delmarva " states, ZooKeys 1051, pp. 1-481 : 1

Phytomyza lineata Lonsdale & Scheffer

Figs 790-792

Phytomyza lineata Lonsdale & Scheffer, 2011: 1194. Scheffer et al. 2021.

Description.

As described for P. ilicicola except as follows:

Wing length 1.8 mm (♂). Female unknown. Eye height divided by gena height: 4.0-4.8.

Chaetotaxy: Anterior ori very small; posterior ors duplicated on left side in one male. Six to seven scattered rows of acrostichal setulae.

Colouration: Scutum sometimes with postpronotum slightly paler/reddish and with posterior margin of notopleuron yellowish. Face brown with lateral margin and parafacial dark grey. Posterolateral corner of frons dark with narrow yellowish line between base of vertical setae. Posterolateral margin of frons with narrow dark line. Legs brown.

Genitalia: (Figs 790-792 ) Surstylus short and tapering. Epandrial process narrow with distinct ventral curve. Sclerite of hypophallus narrow, length 5 × width. Length of mesophallus slightly> 5 × width at midpoint. Paraphallus relatively narrow and weakly defined. Arms of distiphallus separate, slightly longer than mesophallus and subparallel on basal 1/2.

Host.

Aquifoliaceae - Ilex verticillata .

Distribution.

USA: MD, MI, PA, VA.

Type material.

Holotype: USA. VA: Nelson Co. not far from Crabtree Falls, 12.ix.1999, coll. S.J. Scheffer, ex Ilex verticillata (1♂, USNM).

Additional material examined.

See Lonsdale and Scheffer (2011).

Figures

Figures 787 - 795. Phytomyza leslieae Lonsdale and Scheffer, male genitalia 787 external genitalia, left lateral 788 phallus, ventral 789 hypandrial complex, left lateral 790 - 792 P. lineata Lonsdale and Scheffer, male genitalia 790 external genitalia, left lateral 791 phallus, ventral 792 hypandrial complex, left lateral 793 - 795 P. opacae Kulp, male genitalia 793 external genitalia, left lateral 794 phallus, ventral 795 hypandrial complex, left lateral. Originally published in Lonsdale and Scheffer (2011).