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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Ophiomyiinae » Melanagromyza » Melanagromyza hieracii
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Stem borer, Hieracium - Melanagromyza hieracii
Copyright © 2017 John van der Linden

Stem borer, Hieracium - Melanagromyza hieracii
Fish Farm Mounds WMA, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
September 30, 2017
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(includes images of a reared adult)

Stem borer in Hieracium scabrum

Thanks to J. Pearson for the plant ID

Adults had emerged by the time I came upon affected stems (except, apparently, for the one in the thumbnail image above). Placement under Melanagromyza sp. is speculative, based on the existence of other species in this genus that are known to bore in herbaceous stems, pupate therein, and leave behind straw-colored exuviae. This one will apparently need to be reared to get a conclusive ID, as Spencer and Steyskal's 1986 manual does not list Hieracium as a host
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Contributed by John van der Linden on 31 October, 2017 - 2:40pm
Last updated 10 December, 2019 - 10:09am

Moved
Moved from Melanagromyza.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 December, 2019 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Agromyzinae.
… John van der Linden, 22 December, 2018 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Melanagromyza.
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