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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Aulagromyza orbitalis
(Melander)
(
Fig. 100
)
Material
examined.
IOWA
:
Winneshiek Co.
,
43°26'32.50"N
,
92°0'10.32"W
,
17.vi.2013
, em. by
6.vii.2013
,
MJ Hatfield
, ex
Triosteum aurantiacum
(
1♂
)
;
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Hampshire Co.
,
Pelham
,
Butter Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
,
2.vi.2015
, em
.
23–27.vi.2015
, C.S. Eiseman, ex
Diervilla lonicera
, #CSE1646, CNC564730, CNC564731 (2♂);
NORTH
CAROLINA
:
Scotland
Co.,
Laurinburg
,
St. Andrews University
,
14.iv.2016
, em
.
13.v.2016
, T.S. Feldman, ex
Lonicera sempervirens
, #CSE2460, CNC653946, CNC653947 (2♀).
Hosts.
Caprifoliaceae
: *
Diervilla lonicera
Mill.
,
Lonicera dioica
L.,
L. *
sempervirens
L.
,
Symphoricarpos albus
(L.) S.F. Blake,
S. mollis
Nutt.
,
S. rotundifolius
A
. Gray.
, *
Triosteum aurantiacum
E.P. Bicknell
(
Frick 1959
;
Spencer 1969
).
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 100
) On upper leaf surface; initially linear but greatly widening, becoming funnel-shaped or more blotchlike; normally at the edge of the leaf (
Spencer 1969
;
Spencer & Steyskal 1986
). The mines on
Diervilla
and
Lonicera sempervirens
varied from green to yellowish-green to whitish, with the frass tending to be regularly deposited in alternating, closely spaced particles or streaks in the narrow linear portion, then irregularly or indistinctly as the mine widened. Many followed the leaf edge, but some on
Diervilla
began near the midrib. Those on
L. sempervirens
were quite elongate, never forming a distinct blotch but developing irregular margins in the wider terminal portion. The single photographed mine on
Triosteum
was partly green and partly whitish, without visible frass. It began along the leaf margin but curved inward toward the midrib before forming a blotch.
Puparium.
Yellowish-brown; formed outside the mine.
Distribution.
USA
: CA, *IA, ID, KS, *MA, MI, *NC, WA;
Canada
: AB, MB.
Comments.
Spencer (1969)
stated that there are at least two generations per year, but the evidence for this is unclear, apart from a single male caught in
Manitoba
in late August. All of the other specimens he cited were from
Alberta
and were either caught in June or reared from leaf mines collected in June. The two reared specimens were both females, one collected on
June 10
and emerging on
June 26
, the other collected on
June 7
and emerging the following spring.
No
agromyzid has previously been associated with
Triosteum
. We have also seen leaf mines on
T. perfoliatum
L. in
North
Carolina
that were consistent with those of
Aulagromyza orbitalis
.