Neotropical Agromyzidae (Diptera) of the Mission Géodésique de l’Équateur: Becker (1920) revisited
Author
Boucher, Stéphanie
Author
Wheeler, Terry A.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3779
2
157
176
journal article
46226
10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.3
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1175-5326
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17D92CCD-AEC6-47A4-9D47-09756607048E
Liriomyza
sp. C
Agromyza pusilla
Meigen
, of
Becker (1920)
, in part.
MNHN specimen
.
Ecuador
: Casitagua, alt.
3500m
. Dr. P. Rivet. 1903 (1 ♀).
Comments
. The identity of this specimen (partially damaged with head detached but glued on point) cannot be confirmed without males, but diagnostic characters include: upper orbit dark brown, mostly near eye margin but also locally under each ors; vte and vti on dark brown, but vti at limit of yellow; hind margin of eye black on upper half; palpus dark brown; antenna yellow except first flagellomere brown apically (for approximately half its length, more so on dorsal surface) with patch of long white pubescence; mesonotum dark to margin of scutellum with only small yellowish spots at hind corners; anepisternum and katepisternum dark brown with 1/4–1/3 yellow dorsally; 3+1 dc; acr in 4–5 irregular rows; fore coxa yellow with base narrowly brown for about 1/3 of coxa length; femora almost completely yellow with base brown and fore femur brownish dorsally; tibiae and tarsi brown; wing length
2.5 mm
. This female is most similar externally to the Neotropical species
L. menthavora
Sanabria
de Arévalo,
L. cirriformis
Sanabria
de Arévalo and
L. spencerella
Valladeres.