Liriomyza flavicola Spencer

Lonsdale, Owen, 2011, The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California 2850, Zootaxa 2850 (1), pp. 1-123 : 47

Liriomyza flavicola Spencer

Figs 92–95

Liriomyza flavicola Spencer 1981: 231 . Spencer & Steyskal 1986: 110.

Wing length 2.0mm (♂). 2.1mm (♀). Length of ultimate section of vein CuA 1 divided by penultimate section: 1.7. Eye height divided by gena height: 2.2. Pruinosity on scutum not visible. Frons relatively wide with eyes small.

Chaetotaxy: One or two ori, two ors. Acrostichal setulae in two sparse irregular rows.

Colouration: Calypter margin and hairs white. Body entirely light yellow with bristles black, ventral half of katepisternum and meron yellow, ocellar tubercle brownish and fore distal tarsomere brownish.

Genitalia: Figs 92–95 . Surstylus with one subapical spine. Paraphallus absent. Hypophallus small. Mesophallus short, thin, cylindrical and fused to distiphallus. Distiphallus with basal bowl and one pair of thick apical tubulus with basal sclerotizations. Ejaculatory apodeme with pileus ejaculatorius broadly rounded and upcurved laterally; stalk long and thin; blade wide with base and margin darker.

Host. Unknown.

Range. USA. California [Mono, Nevada] .

Type material. Holotype, USA. California: Mono Co., 7mi E of Tioga Pass, 15.vii.1961, G.I. Stage, Type No. 14061 (1♂, CASC) ; Paratypes examined, USA. California: Mono Co., same collection as holotype (1♂ 1♀, EMEC), Nevada Co., Sagehen Crk. , 22.vii.1970, R . M. Bohart (1♀, UCD) .

Comments. The only entirely pale Liriomyza in California is L. flavicola , which is only known from the central-eastern counties of Mono and Nevada.

Figures

FIGURES 88–95. Figs 88–91: Liriomyza equiseti Meijere, male genitalia; 88: external components, ventral; 89: ejaculatory apodeme; 90: phallus, ventral; 91: phallus, left lateral. Figs 92–95: L. flavicola Spencer, male holotype genitalia; 92: phallus, right lateral; 93: ejaculatory apodeme; 94: external components, ventral; 95: phallus, left lateral and ventral, from original figure in Spencer (1981).