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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Calycomyza michiganensis
Steyskal
(
Fig. 115
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Franklin Co.
,
Northfield
, 276
Old Wendell Rd.
,
24.iii.2016
, em
.
24.iv.2016
, J.
A
. Blyth, ex
Hieracium praealtum
, #CSE2420,
CNC654070
(
1♂
)
.
Tentatively
identified material.
NEW
YORK
:
Dutchess Co.
,
Pine Plains
, 79
McNeill Rd.
,
22.vi.2013
, em
.
6.vii.2013
, C.S. Eiseman, ex
Hieracium
, #CSE656, CNC392633 (1♀).
Host.
*
Asteraceae
:
Hieracium praealtum
Vill. ex Gochnat.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 115
) Whitish; beginning as a linear mine on the upper leaf surface, expanding to a full-depth blotch that overruns the linear portion. (Tentatively identified mines formed in June on more mature leaves are confined to the upper leaf surface throughout.) Through the linear portion is a broad, diffuse, brown band containing irregular, blackish frass particles; these particles are sparsely scattered in the blotch.
Puparium.
Yellowish-brown; formed outside the mine. The tentatively identified female pupariated within the mine.
Distribution.
USA
: *MA, MI. We have found a similar leaf mine in ME, in addition to those in NY from which the female was reared.
Comments.
This is the first record of any Nearctic agromyzid from
Hieracium
; so far we have only found leaf mines on introduced European species. The leaf mines discovered on
24 March
were more than two months earlier than we have found larvae of any other
Calycomyza
in New England. The last larva from this collection exited its mine on
5 April
.
The species
Calycomyza menthae
,
C. michiganensis
and
C. novascotiensis
Spencer
are nearly indistinguishable, and will appear at similar points in Spencer’s Nearctic keys, depending on the specimen being examined. To differentiate these, the phallus must be examined; the paraphallus is distinct and rodlike in
C. menthae
(not faded apically as in the other two); in profile, the distiphallus is entirely dark and less than half the length of the mesophallus in
C. michiganensis
, while it is with a medial fossa and about half the length of the mesophallus in
C. novascotiensis
.