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Phytomyza spinaciae
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Copyright © 2016
Even Dankowicz
Phytomyza syngenesiae -
Phytomyza spinaciae
Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
May 1, 2016
on Cirsium arvense
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Contributed by
Even Dankowicz
on 18 May, 2016 - 5:35pm
Last updated 11 April, 2018 - 12:24pm
Moved
Moved from
Chrysanthemum Leafminer
.
Owen Lonsdale has examined females reared from thistle in Iowa and Michigan and says they are not
P. syngenesiae
, but we still need males to find out what they are.
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Charley Eiseman
, 11 April, 2018 - 12:24pm
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Moved
Moved from
Unidentified Leaf Mines
.
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Charley Eiseman
, 18 May, 2016 - 8:57pm
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Did you save the specimen?
Unfortunately it's a female, so the species probably can't be confirmed, but
Cirsium
is a new host record for any
Phytomyza
in North America.
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Charley Eiseman
, 18 May, 2016 - 8:57pm
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Sorry, I did not.
It may be possible for me to ask somebody to procure some of these leaves from the same site next year... would that be ideal? I raised four of these, so I imagine some of them were male, but I released them all after photography.
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Even Dankowicz
, 18 May, 2016 - 9:00pm
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It would be great to get a male specimen to Owen Lonsdale...
both for the host record and the state record. This species has multiple generations per year, so there may well be more opportunities to rear it this year.
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Charley Eiseman
, 18 May, 2016 - 9:07pm
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