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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Phytomyza
sp. 5
(
Fig. 221
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Hampshire Co.
,
Cummington
,
10.vi.2015
, em.
16.iii.2016
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Caltha palustris
, #CSE2247,
CNC654248
(
1♀
)
.
Host.
Ranunculaceae
:
Caltha palustris
L.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 221
) Upper surface, gradually widening, entirely linear; whitish with diffuse brown discoloration; frass black, initially in widely spaced grains, later in alternating irregular strips.
Puparium.
Black; formed outside the mine.
Comments.
This is the first published record of an agromyzid reared from
Caltha
in
North
America.
Spencer (1969)
reported two leaf mines from
Canada
that were attributed to undetermined
Phytomyza
species, one of them a short linear mine that widened considerably at the end, and one a dark brown blotch along the leaf margin. Four
Caltha
-feeding
Phytomyza
species are known in Europe, of which only
P. calthophila
Hering
forms an entirely linear mine (Ellis 2017). The adult from
Massachusetts
does not match the description of any of these, or of several undescribed
Caltha
feeders known from
Canada
(Lonsdale, unpublished data). It is entirely dark with just 1 ors and 1 ori, with a slightly medially widened orbital plate.