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
29197
10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1
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Phytomyza spondylii heracleiphaga
Spencer
(
Fig. 207
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Nantucket Co.
,
Nantucket
,
Abrams Point
,
30.v.2012
, em. by
24.vi.2012
, J
.
A
.
Blyth
, ex
Heracleum maximum
(
1♂
)
.
Host.
Apiaceae
:
Heracleum maximum
W. Bartram.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 207
)
A
white, upper surface, linear mine, with frass in closely spaced grains along the margins.
Spencer (1969)
considered the life history information from
California
presented by
Tauber and Tauber (1968)
for
Phytomyza lanati
Spencer
actually to refer to this species.
Griffiths (1973)
doubted this because Tauber and Tauber reported the mine length to be
25–29.5 cm
, over twice the length of the
6–10 cm
mines from which he reared his Alaskan specimens. However, our
Massachusetts
specimens were indeed reared from mines over
20 cm
long.
Puparium.
Brown or black, strongly arched, with intersegmental boundaries distinctly impressed; formed outside the mine (
Griffiths 1973
).
Distribution.
USA
: AK, CA, *MA. Canadian records given by
Spencer (1969)
refer to
Phytomyza pastinacae
Hendel (
Griffiths 1973
)
.