Thailand Agromyzidae (Diptera) — 2
Author
Sasakawa, Mitsuhiro
text
Zootaxa
2013
3746
4
501
528
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3746.4.1
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1175-5326
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Melanagromyza albisquama
(Malloch)
Agromyza
(
Melanagromyza
)
albisquama
Malloch, 1927: 425
.
Melanagromyza leguminum
Bezzi, 1928: 166
.
Melanagromyza minora
Spencer, 1959: 279
.
Melanagromyza desmodii
Spencer, 1960: 23
.
Melanagromyza compositarum
Spencer, 1961a: 70
.
Material examined
.
2♂
2♀, Loei, Phu Ruea National Park, 17˚30.740´N, 101˚20.650´E,
1353 m
a.s.l.,
26 ix–2 x 2006
, Malaise trap, Nukoonchai Jaroenchai;
2♂
3♀, Phetchabun, Khao Kho National Park, 16˚32.539´N, 102˚02.483´E,
242 m
,
26 xi–2 xii 2006
, Malaise trap, Somchai Chachumnan & Saink Singtong.
Remarks
. This is a common, widespread species throughout the Old World tropics from Polynesia to Africa. This black fly has a shining coppery-greenish mesoscutum and abdomen, the short wing (1.6–2.0 mm in male), a whitish fringe on the calypter, a row of 12 spines on the dorsal part of the surstylus (Sasakawa 1963c), and a chitinized short process near dorsal base of the distiphallus (Spencer 1977b, figs 3, 4). Larva is a seed-feeder in the pods of
Desmodium
spp. (Leguminosae).
Distribution.
Indonesia
(Irian Jaya, Sumbawa),
Philippines
,
Taiwan
,
Vietnam
,
Thailand
,
India
,
Sri Lanka
;
Australia
,
Papua New Guinea
, Bismark Arch., New
Britain
,
Palau
, Solomon Is.,
Vanuatu
,
New Caledonia
, Loyalty Is.,
Belau
,
Fiji
,
Tonga
,
Samoa
; S. Africa,
Mauritius
.