Manual of North American Agromyzidae (Diptera, Schizophora), with revision of the fauna of the " Delmarva " states
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Lonsdale, Owen
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
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Aulagromyza Enderlein
Aulagromyza
Enderlein, 1936a: 180. Type species:
Phytagromyza hamata
Hendel, 1932: 283, by monotypy.
von Tschirnhaus 1991
: 304.
Paraphytomyza
Enderlein, 1936a: 180. [nomen nudum - no type species designated].
Paraphytomyza
Enderlein, 1936b: 43. Type species:
Phytomyza xylostei
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1851: 398, by original designation [=
Phytagromyza luteoscutellata
Meijere, 1924 - original type misidentified, corrected by ICZN (1988)].
Spencer 1969
: 203, 1987a: 255, 1987b: 557;
Spencer and Steyskal 1986b
: 162.
von Tschirnhaus 1991
[synonymy].
Rubiomyza
Nowakowski, 1962: 102. Type species:
Agromyza similis
Brischke, 1881: 258, by original designation.
Spencer 1969
[synonymy].
Literature prior to
Spencer (1969)
often grouped the Nearctic species of this genus in
Phytagromyza
, which became a synonym of
Cerodontha
when
Nowakowski (1962)
found that the type species,
Agromyza flavocingulata
Strobl, was a senior synonym of
C. (Poemyza) semiatra
Hendel - see
Spencer (1969)
for discussion. Following that publication, the name
Paraphytomyza
was used until
von Tschirnhaus (1991)
found that name to be a junior synonym of the previously monotypic
Aulagromyza
. Mirroring earlier proposals by
Nowakowski (1962)
and
Spencer (1969)
, preliminary studies (
Zlobin 2007c
;
Winkler et al. 2009
) are increasingly supportive of a polyphyletic
Aulagromyza
, with the unusual bright yellow
Salicaceae
-feeding species possibly being more closely related to
Phytomyza
. These include
A. tridentata
(Loew), which is treated below.
Species of
Aulagromyza
are diagnosed by a costa that ends at vein R4+5, the relative position of the cross-veins (if dm-m is present, it is distal to r-m, and if dm-m is absent then r-m is positioned far from bm-m), orbital setulae that are never proclinate (differentiating it from the similar
Phytomyza
), and an absence of the posteromedial mid tibial setae. Larvae are stem and leaf miners in
Apocynaceae
,
Asteraceae
,
Brassicaceae
,
Caprifoliaceae
,
Dipsacaceae
,
Fabaceae
,
Oleaceae
,
Rosaceae
,
Rubiaceae
, and
Salicaceae
(
Zlobin 2007c
).
Zlobin (2007c)
recognised 52 World species, 40 of which were Palaearctic. Three species have been confirmed in the Delmarva states, but
Eiseman and Lonsdale (2019)
also reported mines likely attributable to
Aulagromyza cornigera
(Griffiths), a leaf miner on
Caprifoliaceae
.