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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1
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Cerodontha (Butomomyza)
sp. 1
(
Fig. 23
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Franklin Co.
,
Northfield
, 276
Old Wendell Rd.
,
10.viii.2016
, em.
22.viii.2016
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Scirpus cyperinus
, #CSE2931,
CNC659963
(
1♀
)
.
Host.
Cyperaceae
:
Scirpus cyperinus
(L.) Kunth.
Leaf mine.
A
yellowish, elongate blotch, typically occupying the space from the leaf margin to the midrib; frass in a few large, black lumps.
Puparium.
(
Fig. 23
) Whitish to yellowish, broader in the anterior half and tending to taper posteriorly; strongly segmented; most segments with a black, elliptical patch on the ventral surface, these patches usually uniting to form a continuous ventral band with lobed margins. The puparium is firmly glued within the mine, usually roughly perpendicular to the leaf venation; typically two or more puparia lie side by side.
Distribution.
MA; we have also collected leaf mines in VT.
Comments.
The host, mines, and puparia all seem to match
Cerodontha scirpivora
Spencer
, described from
Ontario
(
Spencer 1969
), but our single female keys to
C. angulata
. That species, however, forms a narrower, whitish mine, and its puparium is quite different, being compact and smooth (not deeply segmented), typically reddish-brown or darker, without black ventral markings, and either formed externally or loose within the mine, rather than firmly glued in place.
Cerodontha (Butomomyza)
sp. 1 is heavily parasitized in our experience; our three collections thus far have yielded 22 wasps (
Braconidae
and
Eulophidae
) and a single fly.