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Issue: Vol. 5658 No. 1: 1 Jul. 2025
Type: Monograph
Published: 2025-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5658.1.1
Page range: 1-86
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Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of two new species. Report 2

Museum of Nature; Kharkiv Vasyl Karazin National University; 8 Trinkler Street; Kharkiv; 61058; Ukraine
Diptera female terminalia spermatheca cephalopharyngeal skeleton posterior spiracles distribution head shape

Abstract

Rearing data for 5 species of the subfamily Agromyzinae, 4 species of Ophiomyiinae and 35 species of Phytomyzinae is presented in detail from material collected during 2011–2024 mainly in Ukraine. Additional new rearing data are also provided for 20 previously treated species (Guglya 2021). Figures of cephalopharyngeal skeletons, heads of flies, female terminalia, male terminalia (where necessary) and photos of mined host plants and puparia are provided. Two new species are described from Dicotyledons (Centaurea, Taraxacum and Lactuca): Melanagromyza stemivora sp. nov. and Phytomyza serriola sp. nov. New host plants were revealed for Agromyza dipsaci Hendel, A. paralucida Guglya, A. parca Spencer, Amauromyza (Amauromyza) leonuri Spencer, A. (A.) rameli Černý, A. (Cephalomyza) flavifrons (Meigen), Liriomyza galiivora (Spencer), Phytomyza hellebori Kaltenbach, P. melana Hendel, P. origani Hering and P. ranunculivora Hering. One species A. parca, is newly recorded for Europe and twenty one species newly recorded for Ukraine.

 

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Guglya, Y. (2025) Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of two new species. Report 2. Zootaxa, 5658 (1), 1–86. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5658.1.1