Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species
Author
Eiseman, Charles S.
Author
Lonsdale, Owen
0000-0001-7034-3330
onsdale@agr.gc.ca
Author
Linden, John Van Der
0000-0003-2651-0634
johnbvdl@gmail.com
Author
Feldman, Tracy S.
0000-0001-5939-6810
feldmants@sa.edu
Author
Palmer, Michael W.
0000-0003-1452-2152
mike.palmer@okstate.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-17
4931
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Ophiomyia cf. chondrillae
Spencer
Material examined.
IOWA
:
Allamakee Co.
,
5.ix.2017
, em. spring 2018,
J. van der Linden
, ex
Lactuca
, #
CSE4671
,
CNC1135659–1135660
(1♁
1♀
)
.
Hosts.
Asteraceae
:
Chondrilla juncea
L. (
Spencer & Steyskal 1986
), *
Lactuca
L.
Larval mine.
An externally visible stem mine.
Puparium.
Details not recorded by either
Spencer & Steyskal (1986)
or us, but we believe the puparium was not covered by a “scab” as described in the Comments under
Melanagromyza
sp. 2.
Phenology and voltinism.
The
holotype
of
O. chondrillae
, from
Washington
, is labeled with a date of 11
July
; whether this was the collection or emergence date was not stated, but there are evidently at least two generations since our
Iowa
specimens emerged in spring from stems collected in early
September
.
Distribution.
USA
: *IA, WA (
Spencer & Steyskal 1986
).
Comments.
Ophiomyia chondrillae
was described from a single specimen in poor condition (
Spencer & Steyskal 1986
), which we have not examined, but our specimens key readily to this species in
Spencer & Steyskal (1986)
. The morphology of the flies reared from
Lactuca
seems to fit this species, and we suspect that slight differences in genitalic morphology compared to the original illustrations are due to error or a difference in the angle in which the phallus was illustrated. Given this, and the fact that the host is in the same tribe (
Cichorieae
) as that of the
holotype
, we choose to regard them as conspecific until we can examine specimens reared from
Chondrilla
.