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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Liriomyza » Liriomyza schmidti
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St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 1 - Liriomyza schmidti
Copyright © 2017 Tracy S. Feldman

St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 1 - Liriomyza schmidti
Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina, USA
August 14, 2017
I am not sure if any of these are occupied. It may be too late.

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St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 1 - Liriomyza schmidti St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 2 - Liriomyza schmidti St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 3 - Liriomyza schmidti St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 4 - Liriomyza schmidti St. Andrews leaf miner on Gelsemium sempervirens SA1016 2017 5 - Liriomyza schmidti
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 15 August, 2017 - 4:28pm
Last updated 9 March, 2018 - 2:34pm

Moved
Moved from Epidermal mines on Gelsemium sempervirens.

I take it all back!
… Charley Eiseman, 9 March, 2018 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

There were five dead flies in the vials! Plus two more puparia that may be viable. They are Liriomyza, and there are at least two males.
… Charley Eiseman, 1 September, 2017 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

 
They must have emerged en rou
They must have emerged en route--wonderful news! Thanks for the update! Could they be L. schmidti?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 1 September, 2017 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

 
More likely a new species
Liriomyza schmidti isn't known to occur north of southern Florida, and it is so polyphagous that I would expect you to be finding it on other plants too (I had initially thought that's what your Passiflora mines might be, but those proved to be Marmara). I do think that L. schmidti is the only Liriomyza that is known to make epidermal mines like this, but I suspect the Gelsemium miner will turn out to be either something new or something not previously reared.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 September, 2017 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

Exciting news--on 8/16-17/201
Exciting news--on 8/16-17/2017, I found additional mines, several of which were occupied by living larvae. Two larvae have emerged so far and one has pupated (it is small). I will hope for the best that any of them survives.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 18 August, 2017 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

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