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Species Ophiomyia maura

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Opomyzoidea

Family Agromyzidae (Leaf Miner Flies)

Subfamily Ophiomyiinae

Genus Ophiomyia

Species maura (Ophiomyia maura)

Explanation of Names

Author: Meigen, 1838

Remarks

Larvae form long, linear mines in various species of Astereae, especially goldenrods. Mines in Symphyotrichum formerly attributed to this species are made by Ophiomya parda.(1)

Works Cited

1.	New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species Charles S. Eiseman & Owen Lonsdale. 2018. Zootaxa.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 20 April, 2015 - 7:09pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 14 September, 2018 - 5:29am

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