New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana)
Author
Marc, Stéphanie Boucher
Author
Pollet, Marc
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Herman Teirlinckgebouw, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) and Operational Directory Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium)
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Zoosystema
2025
2025-01-14
47
2
13
42
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2
1638-9387
14670952
44C62D57-8949-492A-82C6-54EB2E52FB26
Genus
Japanagromyza
Sasakawa, 1958
(
Fig. 8
)
Japanagromyza
Sasakawa, 1958: 140
.
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Agromyza duchesneae
Sasakawa, 1954
.
REMARKS
A total of
12 female
specimens belonging to the genus
Japanagromyza
were collected on the Mitaraka massif, representing four morphospecies (
Boucher & Pollet 2021
) (
Fig. 8
A-D). All these species have a metallic sheen characteristic of the genus. However, most of the Mitaraka
Japanagromyza
species
(
Japanagromyza
MIT-2;
J
. Mit-3 and
J
. Mit-4) lack the prsc normally present in this genus. Out of the 35 species of
Japanagromyza
recorded in the Neotropical region, (treating
J. iridescens
(Frost, 1936)
and
J. inaequalis
(Malloch, 1914)
as two distinct species [
Spencer & Stegmaier 1973
]), only five species (
J. aldrichi
(Frick, 1952)
;
J. lonchocarpi
Boucher, 2006
;
J. polygoni
Spencer, 1973
;
J. desmodivora
Spencer, 1966
and
J. tingomariensis
Sasakawa, 1992
) lack these setae. Unfortunately, without male specimens the identification of the Mitaraka specimens could not be confirmed.