Ophiomyia asparagi Spencer

Guglya, Yuliia, 2021, Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of seven new species, Zootaxa 5014 (1), pp. 1-158 : 14-16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5014.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:63EEF5A6-EAE0-438F-87BC-AF5806BD3641

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5162352

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D2619A43-FFF4-2A6D-49DB-A2C3FCD2FDE3

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ophiomyia asparagi Spencer
status

 

Ophiomyia asparagi Spencer View in CoL

( Figs. 29–32 View FIGURES 29–36 , 326 View FIGURES 326–333 )

Material examined: Ukraine: Kharkiv Region: near Petrivske , 49°10’N, 36°58’E, 11.viii.2013, Yu. Guglya, ex Asparagus officinalis (1 puparium). The rest of material are listed in Guglya (2015) GoogleMaps .

Hosts. Asparagaceae : Asparagus officinalis L., A. acutifolius L. ( Spencer 1990).

Mine. ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 29–36 ) The larva feeds as an external stem miner. Mine tunnels, larva and puparium are easily visible from outside. Pupation takes place subepidermally ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 29–36 ).

Puparium. ( Figs. 31, 32 View FIGURES 29–36 ) Yellow to orange, slightly shining, 3.0 mm long, with scarcely visible segmentation; surface quite smooth. Posterior spiracles set on short protuberances joining towards their bases; yellow, fan-shaped, with five sessile bulbs arranged in irregular row. Anal plate not protruding above the surface of the puparium viewed from the side and directed ventro-posteriorly.

Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. ( Fig. 326 View FIGURES 326–333 ) Right mouthhook smaller than the left, both with ventral portion sharply abducted. Each mouthhook bears two accessory teeth. Intermediate sclerite long, narrow and straight, weakly sclerotized centrally, 1.75× as long as height of the left mouthhook. The dorsal cornu bears a narrow and long “open” window. Dorsal and ventral cornua are well sclerotized. Distinct transverse bridge connecting bases of dorsal and ventral cornua. Indentation index 58.

Female genitalia: Discussed in Guglya (2015).

Distribution. Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Maltese Islands, Slovenia, Spain ( Papp & Černý 2015). In Ukraine found in a single locality ( Guglya 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

Genus

Ophiomyia

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