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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Cerodontha (Dizygomyza)
cf.
iraeos
(Robineau-Desvoidy)
(
Fig. 129
)
Material examined.
MISSOURI
:
Franklin Co., Gray Summit, Shaw Nature Reserve,
1.vii.2015
, em. by
4– 16.vii.2015
, C.S. Eiseman, ex
Iris cristata
, #CSE1678,
CNC
564659,
CNC
564660 (
1♂
1♀
).
Host.
Iridaceae
:
Iris
*
cristata
Aiton.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 129
) An elongate, irregular blotch, uniformly green or with a few small whitish patches; frass deposited in a single black lump. Larva solitary.
Puparium.
Brown; formed within the mine, oriented parallel with the leaf venation.
Distribution.
*
USA
: MO; Europe.
Comments.
There are small differences between these and the available European specimens of
C. iraeos
. The mines on
I. cristata
are consistent with the account given by
Ellis (2016)
except that mines on European hosts are white (greenish in transmitted light).