New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species
Author
Eiseman, Charles S.
Author
Lonsdale, Owen
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-14
4479
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1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1
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Phytomyza persicae
Frick
(
Fig. 200
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Hampshire Co.
,
Southampton
, 37
Middle Rd.
,
18.x.2013
, em.
21.iii.2014
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Prunus persica
, #CSE1015,
CNC384791
(
1♂
)
.
Host.
Rosaceae
:
Prunus persica
(L.) Batsch.
Frost (1924)
reported rearing adults from
P. serotina
Ehrh.
, but his specimens have never been examined to verify their identity.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 200
) Yellowish-green, upper surface; long, narrow, entirely linear; frass in discrete, wellspaced, black grains. None of the mines we found were remotely “whitish,” as described by
Spencer (1969)
and
Spencer & Steyskal (1986)
.
Puparium.
Brown; formed within the mine, with the anterior spiracles projecting through the upper epidermis.
Distribution.
USA
: CT, *MA, NY (
Scheffer & Lonsdale 2018
), OH, PA (
Frost 1924
), VA;
Canada
: ON.