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
sp. 2
(
Fig. 218
)
Material
examined.
IOWA
:
Winneshiek Co.
,
Cresco
,
Cold Water Creek Rd.
,
43°25'55.97"N
,
92° 0'34.78"W
,
16.vii.2015
, em
.
27.vii.2015
, C.S. Eiseman, ex
Symphyotrichum
lateriflorum
, #CSE1862, CNC564636 (1♀).
Host.
Asteraceae
:
Symphyotrichum
lateriflorum
(L.)
Á
. Löve & D. Löve.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 218
) Long, entirely linear, pale greenish; frass in long, black strips along the sides.
Puparium.
Black; formed outside the mine.
Comments.
We have found similar mines on
Symphyotrichum
lateriflorum
in
Ohio
, but only parasitoids emerged from the puparia.
Frost (1924)
reported rearing “
Phytomyza albiceps
Meigen
” from
S. lanceolatum
(Willd.) G.L. Nesom,
S.
novae-angliae
(L.) G.L. Nesom, and
S. undulatum
(L.) G.L. Nesom in
New
York
, and noted that the mines on these hosts have “a prominent central black frass line, strongly resembling the mines of the
Nepticulidae
” (
Lepidoptera
). The true
P. albiceps
is exclusively European, and Frost’s flies evidently represent one or more other species of the
P. albiceps
group, but
Griffiths (1976)
was unable to locate Frost’s or any other specimens of the
P. albiceps
group reared from asters in eastern
North
America. The mines we have observed, and those described by Frost, are suggestive of
Phytomyza ciliolati
Spencer
(known only from
Alberta
), which
Griffiths (1976)
reared from several
Symphyotrichum
spp.