Phytomyza glechomae Kaltenbach

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 : 68

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.5162420

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D2619A43-FFBA-2A21-49DB-A60BFED0F93F

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Plazi

scientific name

Phytomyza glechomae Kaltenbach
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Phytomyza glechomae Kaltenbach View in CoL

( Figs. 194–196 View FIGURES 194–201 , 567–571 View FIGURES 567–571 )

Material examined: Ukraine: Kyiv Region: near Obukhiv, Tarasivka, 50°09’N, 30°35’E, 23.v.2019 GoogleMaps —pupariation, Yu. Guglya, ex Glechoma hederacea — 7.ix.2019 (1♀); Kharkiv Region: near Rubizhne, 50°07’N, 36°46’E, 19.v.2019 GoogleMaps —pupariation, Yu. Guglya, ex Glechoma hederacea (1 puparium); near Petrivske, 49°10’N, 36°58’E, 2.v.2020 —mines with larvae, Yu. Guglya, ex Glechoma hederacea —2.ix, 13.ix and 5.x.2020 (3♀).

Host. Lamiaceae : Glechoma hederacea L. ( Spencer 1976).

Mine. ( Fig. 194 View FIGURES 194–201 ) The larva forms an irregular linear upper surface mine. The width of the mine greatly increases during the course of the larval life. Sometimes the loops of the mine are laid so closely that it appears as a blotch. Pupation takes place outside the mine in the soil.

Puparium. ( Figs. 195, 196 View FIGURES 194–201 ) Brown, semi-glossy, 2.5 mm long, with distinct segmentation; surface quite smooth except for wide bands of fine spines and the last two abdominal segments finely wrinkled. Posterior spiracles set on wide and short conical protuberances that are entirely separate; black, glossy and sickle-shaped. Anal plate strongly protruding above the surface of the puparium viewed from the side and directed ventro-posteriorly.

Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. ( Fig. 567 View FIGURES 567–571 ) Right mouthhook slightly larger than the left, each with distinct abducted portion directed ventrally and bearing two accessory teeth. Intermediate sclerite long and slightly curved, 1.28× as long as maximum height of left mouthhook. The mouthhook, most of the intermediate sclerite, and the dorsal cornu medially and anteriorly are strongly sclerotized; the intermediate sclerite dorsally and the rest of the pharyngeal sclerite are much less so. The ventral cornu bears a small and very narrow “closed” window in the posterior half. Indentation index 83.

Female head. ( Figs. 568, 569 View FIGURES 567–571 ) Brown, with antenna and postgena black; orbit slightly projecting above eye in profile; 2 orb s, 1 fr s; lunule narrow, higher than a semicircle, reaching the level of the anterior orb s; pped large, rounded; gena medially 0.46× as high as maximum height of eye.

Female genitalia. ( Figs. 570, 571 View FIGURES 567–571 ) Capsule of spermatheca relatively small, 0.19× as high as height of anterior part of oviscape. Spermathecae equal in size, dark brown, flattened basally and apically, wider than high. Internal duct invagination cylindrical, narrowing medially, as deep as height of spermatheca. Spermathecal duct weakly sclerotized. Ventral receptacle S-shaped, with weakly sclerotized tail that is two-bladed in basal half. Body of receptacle spherical with sharply curved basal connecting tube, strongly sclerotized, 0.57× as wide as width of capsule of spermatheca; with opening 0.5× as wide as diameter of spherical part of body.

Distribution. Palaearctic, recorded from 18 European countries and also Japan ( Papp & Černý 2019). Ukraine (first record).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

Genus

Phytomyza

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