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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1
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journal article
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Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) morosa
(Meigen)
Material examined.
OKLAHOMA
:
Payne Co.
,
Mehan
, 36.013839°, -96.998103°,
20.xii.2017
, em.
12.ii.2018
,
M.W. Palmer
, ex
Carex amphibola
, #
CSE4377
,
CNC1135648
(
1♀
)
Hosts.
Cyperaceae
: [
Carex
*
amphibola
Steud.
,
C. festucacea
Willd.
],
C. gracillima
Schwein.
,
C. hitchcockiana
Dewey
,
C. leptonervia
(Fernald) Fernald (
Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018
)
.
Leaf mine.
A long, whitish corridor, changing direction a few times, with frass in a single blackish lump toward the leaf apex.
Puparium.
Yellowish or reddish to blackish-brown; formed within the mine, glued to the floor toward the base of the leaf.
Phenology and voltinism.
In
Massachusetts
,
Cerodontha morosa
has been reared in late June and early July from leaf mines collected in June. In
Oklahoma
, tentatively identified females have been reared from overwintering pupae, and from mines collected in early and late May with adults emerging in early May and early June (
Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018
).
Distribution.
USA
: CA, MA, MO (
Spencer 1981
), [OK]; records from IL, IN, MD, MI (
Priest
et al.
2020
), and SD require verification; Europe (
Eiseman & Lonsdale 2018
). The
Montana
record given by
Spencer & Steyskal (1986)
and repeated by
Eiseman & Lonsdale (2018)
was evidently an erroneous substitution for the
Missouri
record given by
Spencer (1981)
.
Comments.
This is the first record of an agromyzid from
Carex amphibola
.