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Species Ophiomyia rugula

Leigh Farm Park leaf miner or galler on Baccharis halimifolia D913A 2018 1 - Ophiomyia rugula

Leigh Farm Park leaf miner or galler on Baccharis halimifolia D913A 2018 2 - Ophiomyia rugula

Lake Crabtree Leaf miner on Baccharis halimifolia D1091 2018 1 - Ophiomyia rugula

Lake Crabtree Leaf miner on Baccharis halimifolia D1091 2018 2 - Ophiomyia rugula

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 rugula (Ophiomyia rugula)

Explanation of Names

Authors: Eiseman & Lonsdale, 2021 (1)

Food

Larvae form short mines along the midribs of Baccharis halimifolia leaves.

Works Cited

1.	13 new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species Eiseman, Lonsdale, van der Linden, Feldman, Palmer. 2021. Zootaxa.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 6 March, 2019 - 9:13am
Last updated 18 February, 2021 - 9:34am

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