Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil
Author
Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago
Author
Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro
Author
Esposito, Maria Cristina
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-28
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2
151
182
journal article
26369
10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.1
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1175-5326
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Melanagromyza compositoides
Spencer, 1963
Figures 3–4
Melanagromyza compositoides
Spencer, 1963: 310
;
Sasakawa, 1992d: 4
;
Etienne & Martinez, 2003: 10
.
Melanagromyza querula,
Spencer & Stegmaier, 1973: 163
. Syn.
Spencer, 1973b: 14
.
Diagnosis.
Wing length
2 mm
. Arista conspicuously pilose. Mesonotum greenish-black; calypter whitish, fringe white. Aedeagus (Fig. 3 and 4): basiphallus elliptic, slightly sclerotized; distiphallus enlarged until medial point, covered with many tubercles and forming a sclerotized process at apex; hypandrium with apodeme.
Host-plants.
Asteraceae—
Ageratum conyzoides
L.,
Eclipta alba
(L.) Hassk,
Melanthera nivea
(L.) Small.,
Rolandra fruticosa
(L.) Kuntze.
Distribution.
*
Brazil
,
Dominican Republic
,
Guadeloupe
,
Jamaica
,
Peru
,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Venezuela
.
Material
examined.
Brazil
,
Pará state
,
Belém
:
Universidade Federal
do
Pará
(
UFPA
),
1º28′24.2″S
,
48º27′30.5″W
,
04-IX-2015
,
N. Monteiro
[collector], ex stems of
Eclipta alba
(
2 ♂
); same location,
04-IX-2015
,
N. Monteiro
[collector], ex stems of
Eclipta alba
(
6 ♀
)
.
Comments.
Despite the conspicuously pilose arista,
M. compositoides
can only be satisfactorily differentiated from the other species of this genus based on the analysis of male genitalia, which is characteristical of this species (
Spencer & Stegmaier 1973
).