Liriomyza helianthi Spencer, 1981

Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen & Feldman, Tracy S., 2019, Nine new species of Agromyzidae from North Carolina, USA, with new host and distribution records for additional species, Zootaxa 4571 (3), pp. 301-333 : 313

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:516E5988-2ED9-4DF9-8F0B-D9952A2B3EEE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5941535

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/987D8785-FFB7-0615-FF0E-AF514158D19D

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Plazi

scientific name

Liriomyza helianthi Spencer
status

 

Liriomyza helianthi Spencer View in CoL

( Figs. 17–18 View FIGURES 15–20 , 44 View FIGURES 41–49 )

Material examined. NORTH CAROLINA : Durham Co., Durham, Leigh Farm Park, 1.v.2017, em. 22– 24.v.2017, T.S. Feldman, ex Chrysogonum virginianum , # CSE3705 , CNC939767–939771 View Materials (2♂ 3♀); same collection, em. 1.ix–15.x.2017, # CSE4351 , CNC939781 View Materials (1♀ [very poor condition]).

Tentatively identified material. NORTH CAROLINA: Durham Co., Durham, Leigh Farm Park , 10.vi.2016, em. 30.vi.2016, T.S. Feldman, ex Chrysogonum virginianum , # CSE2676 , CNC654290 View Materials (1♀) .

Hosts. Asteraceae : Ambrosia psilostachya DC., Artemisia biennis Willd. , * Chrysogonum virginianum L., Helianthus annuus L., Xanthium strumarium L.; Brassicaceae : “ Nasturtium ” ( Spencer & Steyskal 1986; Lonsdale 2011, 2017).

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 41–49 ) Upper surface; long, narrow, entirely linear; whitish, with black frass along the sides in strips, beaded strips, and occasionally discrete grains.

Puparium. ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 15–20 ) Yellow; formed outside the mine.

Distribution. USA: CA, CO, MD, *NC, NM, OR, VA, WA; Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB, NS, ON, QC, SK ( Lonsdale 2017).

Comments. This is the first record of any agromyzid from Chrysogonum L.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

Genus

Liriomyza

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