Phytomyza clematiphaga Spencer

Eiseman, Charles S. & Lonsdale, Owen, 2018, New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species, Zootaxa 4479 (1), pp. 1-156 : 69-70

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:93C84828-6EEF-4758-BEA1-97EEEF115245

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997888

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D287EF-FFE4-E40F-A8E5-56AB4394FF34

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scientific name

Phytomyza clematiphaga Spencer
status

 

Phytomyza clematiphaga Spencer View in CoL

( Fig. 180 View FIGURES 180–188 )

Material examined. COLORADO: Fremont Co., Bear Creek , Forest Rd. 101, off of 49 Rd., 7.vii.2015, em. 19– 22.vii.2015, C.S. Eiseman, ex Clematis hirsutissima var. scottii , #CSE1728, CNC654335 View Materials , CNC654336 View Materials (1♂ 1♀) .

Hosts. Ranunculaceae : Clematis columbiana (Nutt.) Torr. & A. Gray, C. * hirsutissima Pursh var. scottii (Porter) Erickson , C. occidentalis (Hornem.) DC. ( Spencer 1969).

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 180 View FIGURES 180–188 ) Upper surface (though at least sometimes beginning on the lower surface), white, linear; up to 1 mm or slightly wider, with a small terminal enlargement up to 3 mm wide. The black frass is in strips or beaded strips along the sides.

Puparium. Yellowish-brown, formed within the mine, with the anterior spiracles projecting through the upper epidermis.

Distribution. USA: *CO, MT; Canada: AB.

Phytomyza clematoides Spencer

( Fig. 181 View FIGURES 180–188 )

Material examined. COLORADO: Fremont Co., Bear Creek , Forest Rd. 101, off of 49 Rd., 7.vii.2015, em. 26.vii.2015, C.S. Eiseman, ex Clematis ligusticifolia , #CSE1853, CNC564610 View Materials (1♀) .

Host. Ranunculaceae : Clematis ligusticifolia Nutt.

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 181 View FIGURES 180–188 ) Whitish, gradually widening, entirely linear; frass in numerous, small, closely spaced grains.

Puparium. Brown; formed outside the mine.

Distribution. USA: *CO, WA.

Comments. The identification of this female is very tentative, as no reference material of P. clematoides was available and the genus is in need of revision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

Genus

Phytomyza

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