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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Phytomyza » albiceps species group (Phytomyza albiceps species group) » Phytomyza solidaginivora
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Phytomyza n sp near solidaginivora - Phytomyza solidaginivora - male
Copyright © 2015 Charley Eiseman

Phytomyza n sp near solidaginivora - Phytomyza solidaginivora - Male
Perry, Washington County, Maine, USA
July 4, 2013
Size: 1.8 mm
Both of the adults I reared were teneral like this, but Owen Lonsdale determined them to be a new species based on the genitalia. So I collected additional, similar leaf mines on the same host plant, but the single fly I reared from them turned out to be a different new species!

Edit, spring 2016: we're calling it P. solidaginivora for now.
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 April, 2015 - 9:22am
Last updated 23 April, 2016 - 6:30pm

No kidding...
Seems like you can't turn around without hitting a new agromyzid species! I hope everyone takes notice and starts collecting these really cool little flies (with host data!!)!
… Owen Lonsdale, 14 May, 2015 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

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