Nemorimyza maculosa ( Malloch, 1913 )

Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago, Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro & Esposito, Maria Cristina, 2019, Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil, Zootaxa 4624 (2), pp. 151-182 : 175-176

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scientific name	Nemorimyza maculosa ( Malloch, 1913 )
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Nemorimyza maculosa ( Malloch, 1913) View in CoL

Agromyza maculosa Malloch, 1913: 302 View in CoL .

Agromyza guaranitica Brèthes 1920: 283 . Syn. Spencer (1963).

Dizygomyza maculosa, Blanchard, 1938: 358 .

Phytobia (Amauromyza) maculosa, Frick, 1952: 393 ; 1959: 378: Spencer, 1963: 336.

Amauromyza maculosa, Spencer 1967: 8 View in CoL ; Sepencer & Stegmaier, 1973: 93; Spencer, 1981: 144.

Nemorimyza maculosa Zlobin, 1996: 275 View in CoL ; Valenzuela-Escoboza et al. 2017, 188.

Diagnosis. Wing length 2.3–2.5 mm. Head black; mesonotum shining black; legs black; calypter greyish, fringe greyish; halter white with black spot distally. Aedeagus (Fig. 1C and 1D in Valenzuela-Escoboza et al. 2017): ba- siphallus slightly sclerotized; hypophallus sclerotied, flap-like, almost same length of the distiphallus; mesophallus stout and subquadrate; distiphallus forming two short tubules parcially fused and curved distally.

Host-plants. Asterceae— Arctium lappa L., Artemisia vulgaris L., Aster spp., Baccharis douglasii DC., Baccharis halimifolia L., Bidens alba (L.) DC., Bidens Pilosa L. , Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob., Chrysanthemum spp., Dendranthema indicum (L.) Des Moulins, Emilia coccinea (Sims) G. Don , Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex Wight, Erechtites hieraciifolius (L.) Raf. Ex DC., Erigeron canadensis L., Gaillardia aristate Pursh , Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Willd.) Cabrera , Grindelia squarrosa (Pursh) Dunal , Helianthus annuus L., Lactuca sativa L., Melanthera aspera (Jacq.) Steud. ex Small , Mikania micrantha Kunth , Packera glabella (Poir.) C. Jeffrey, Sonchus asper (L.) Hill, Tagetes erecta L., Tagetes patula L.

Distribution. Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint- Martin, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela.

Material examined. Brazil, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará ( UFPA), 1º28′24.1″S, 48º27′27.2″W, 13-X-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Emilia sonchifolia (2 ♂); same location, 13-X-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Emilia sonchifolia (20 ♀) GoogleMaps .

Comments. Nemorimyza maculosa is easily differentiated from the other species in this genus by the dark spot on the halter (completely yellow in N. posticata (Meigen) and predominantly black in N. ranchograndensis (Spencer)) , the whitish squamae and fringe (blackish in N. ranchograndensis ), the abdomen blackish (partially yellow in N.posticata ) and the curved tubules of the distiphallus (parallel in N. posticata and N. ranchograndensis ). This species has been associated with more than 20 genera of host-plants belonging to the Asteraceae family (Benavent- Corai et al. 2005), forming blotches on the surface of the leaf.

References

Blanchard, E. E. (1938) Descriptionses y anotaciones de dipteros argentines. Agromyzidae. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 126, 352 - 359.

Brethes, J. (1920) Insectos utiles y daninos de Rio Grande do Sul y de la Plata. Anales de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, 54, 281 - 290.

Frick, K. E. (1952) A generic revision of the family Agromyzidae (Diptera) with a catalogue of the New World species. University of California Publications in Entomology, 8, 339 - 452.

Frick, K. E. (1959) Synopsis of the species of agromyzid leaf miners described from North America (Diptera). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 108, 347 - 465. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.108 - 3407.347

Malloch, J. R. (1913) A revision of the species in Agromyza Fallen, and Cerodontha Rondani (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 6, 269 - 336. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 6.3.269

Spencer, K. A. (1963) A synopsis of the Neotropical Agromyzidae (Diptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 115, 291 - 389. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1963. tb. 00811. x

Spencer, K. A. (1967) Agromyzidae. In: A catalogue of the Diptera of thhe Americas South of the United States. Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, Sao Paulo, pp. 83.1 - 83.23.

Spencer, K. A. (1981) A revisionary study of the leaf-mining flies (Agromyzidae) of California. University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences Special Publication, 3273. University of California, Berkeley, 489 pp.

Valenzuela-Escoboza, F. A., Castaneda-Vildozola, A., Palacios-Torres, R. E., Lopez-Martinez, G., Silva-Sombra, K. D., Valdez- Carrasco, J. & Lopez-Valenzuela, B. E. (2017) First record of genus Nemorimyza Frey, 1946 (Diptera: Agromyzidae) for Mexico. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 93 (4), 187 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.3956 / 2017 - 93.4.187

Zlobin, V. V. (1996) The genus Amauromyza Hendel (Diptera, Agromyzidae): a clarification of species of the subgenus Annimyzella Spencer. International Journal of Dipterological Research, 7, 271 - 280.