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
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-14
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journal article
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Phytomyza
sp. 4
(
Fig. 220
)
Material examined.
COLORADO
:
Fremont Co., Bear Creek, Forest Rd. 101, off of 49 Rd.,
7.vii.2015
, em. by
31.iii.2016
, C.S. Eiseman, ex
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
, #CSE2297,
CNC
634819 (
1♀
).
Host.
Caprifoliaceae
:
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Moench.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 220
) Greenish-white to pale brown; an irregular linear-blotch, varying from essentially linear throughout to having no evident linear portion when complete. Frass diffuse and indistinct in some examples, in others forming a meandering, broken line or deposited in irregular particles.
Puparium.
Brown; formed within the mine.
Comments.
Our single female specimen cannot be identified to species. Four Nearctic
Phytomyza
species are recorded from
Symphoricarpos
, three of them covered by
Griffiths (1974a)
and one described as new here. Mines of
P. palmeri
, found in
Oklahoma
, are essentially linear throughout, with frass consistently placed in lines of discrete, closely spaced grains, quite distinct in appearance from the
Colorado
mines. The mine of
P. symphoricarpi
(Griffiths)
, known from
Alberta
and
California
, is based on the midrib, which was not the case for any of the
Colorado
mines.
Phytomyza caprifoliae
Spencer
, known only from
Alberta
, forms a “gradually widening linear-blotch” with the frass “deposited as fine particles, mostly separated by less than
1 mm
”; this description more or less falls within the range of variation observed in the
Colorado
mines. The mine of
P. fricki
(Griffiths)
, discussed above, is said to be initially stellate, and this was clearly evident in the
P. fricki
mines we collected in
Idaho
, but not in those we collected in
Wyoming
, possibly because the beginning was obscured in the finished mines. In most of the
Colorado
mines the beginning was visible, and it was never stellate, nor did any of the mines branch later. Otherwise, they were not markedly different from our
Wyoming
examples of
P. fricki
. More rearings from
Symphoricarpos
will be needed to determine the number of species involved and the full range of variation in their mines.