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Genus Pegomya

Early larva - Pegomya Pegomya pseudobicolor - female Pegomya pseudobicolor - male fly - Pegomya Chenopodium berlandieri - Pegomya mine on Rumex crispus - Pegomya Blowing rock leaf miner on Cerastium BR10 2016 2 - Pegomya flavifrons Pegomya reared from Rumex crispus - Pegomya bicolor
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
No Taxon (Pegomya group)
Genus Pegomya
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Often spelled Pegomyia (a more correct spelling, but the original one is to be retained)
Formerly treated in a broader sense including what is now Eutrichota
Explanation of Names
Pegomya Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Identification
1. A1 not abbreviated; scutellum w/ ventral hairs (Anthomyiini)
2. Middle of proepisternum & katepimeron w/o hairs
3. 3 postsutural DC bristles
4. Lower calypter not extending beyond upper
5. Head/thorax/abdomen not whitish gray w/ 3 stripes
6. Proboscis not very long/slender/tubular
7. Eyes bare
8. Head not noticeably small
9. Arista bare
10. Metatibia w/2 posterodorsal preapical bristles
11. Mesotibia w/o a preapical anteroventral bristle
Food
Larvae of subgenus Pegomya mine in leaves, usually Chenopodiaceae and related families but occasionally composites and other families. Most larvae of subgenus Phoraea live in fungi.
Print References
Deyrup, M.A. 1989. A new species of Pegomya (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) attacking Boschniakia (Orobanchaceae). Pan.-Pac. Ent. 65: 34-42
Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 29 April, 2007 - 6:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 13 January, 2025 - 2:22am

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