Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil
Author
Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago
Author
Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro
Author
Esposito, Maria Cristina
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-28
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journal article
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Nemorimyza maculosa
(
Malloch, 1913
)
Agromyza maculosa
Malloch, 1913: 302
.
Agromyza guaranitica
Brèthes 1920: 283
. Syn.
Spencer (1963)
.
Dizygomyza maculosa
,
Blanchard, 1938: 358
.
Phytobia
(
Amauromyza
)
maculosa
,
Frick, 1952: 393
;
1959: 378
:
Spencer, 1963: 336
.
Amauromyza maculosa
,
Spencer 1967: 8
; Sepencer & Stegmaier, 1973: 93;
Spencer, 1981: 144
.
Nemorimyza maculosa
Zlobin, 1996: 275
;
Valenzuela-Escoboza
et al.
2017
, 188.
Diagnosis.
Wing length
2.3–2.5 mm
. Head black; mesonotum shining black; legs black; calypter greyish, fringe greyish; halter white with black spot distally. Aedeagus (Fig. 1C and 1D in
Valenzuela-Escoboza
et al.
2017
): ba- siphallus slightly sclerotized; hypophallus sclerotied, flap-like, almost same length of the distiphallus; mesophallus stout and subquadrate; distiphallus forming two short tubules parcially fused and curved distally.
Host-plants.
Asterceae—
Arctium lappa
L.,
Artemisia vulgaris
L.,
Aster
spp.,
Baccharis douglasii
DC.,
Baccharis halimifolia
L.,
Bidens alba
(L.) DC.,
Bidens Pilosa
L.
,
Chromolaena odorata
(L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.,
Chrysanthemum
spp.,
Dendranthema indicum
(L.) Des Moulins,
Emilia coccinea
(Sims) G. Don
,
Emilia sonchifolia
(L.) DC. ex Wight,
Erechtites hieraciifolius
(L.) Raf. Ex DC.,
Erigeron canadensis
L.,
Gaillardia aristate
Pursh
,
Gamochaeta pensylvanica
(Willd.) Cabrera
,
Grindelia squarrosa
(Pursh) Dunal
,
Helianthus annuus
L.,
Lactuca sativa
L.,
Melanthera aspera
(Jacq.) Steud. ex Small
,
Mikania micrantha
Kunth
,
Packera glabella
(Poir.)
C. Jeffrey,
Sonchus asper
(L.) Hill,
Tagetes erecta
L.,
Tagetes patula
L.
Distribution.
Argentina
,
Bahamas
,
Barbados
,
Bermuda
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Canada
,
Chile
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Cuba
,
Dominican Republic
, Grand Cayman,
Guadeloupe
,
Guyana
,
Martinica
,
Mexico
,
Peru
,
Puerto Rico
, Saint- Martin,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Uruguay
,
USA
,
Venezuela
.
Material
examined.
Brazil
,
Pará state
,
Belém
:
Universidade Federal
do
Pará
(
UFPA
),
1º28′24.1″S
,
48º27′27.2″W
,
13-X-2015
,
N. Monteiro
[collector], ex leaf of
Emilia sonchifolia
(
2 ♂
); same location,
13-X-2015
,
N. Monteiro
[collector], ex leaf of
Emilia sonchifolia
(
20 ♀
)
.
Comments.
Nemorimyza maculosa
is easily differentiated from the other species in this genus by the dark spot on the halter (completely yellow in
N. posticata
(Meigen)
and predominantly black in
N. ranchograndensis
(Spencer))
, the whitish squamae and fringe (blackish in
N. ranchograndensis
), the abdomen blackish (partially yellow in
N.posticata
) and the curved tubules of the distiphallus (parallel in
N. posticata
and
N. ranchograndensis
). This species has been associated with more than 20 genera of host-plants belonging to the
Asteraceae
family (Benavent- Corai
et al.
2005), forming blotches on the surface of the leaf.