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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Calycomyza » Calycomyza platyptera
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Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 1 - Calycomyza platyptera
Copyright © 2022 Tracy S. Feldman

Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 1 - Calycomyza platyptera
Kitty Hawk Dunes and beach, Dare County, North Carolina, USA
July 28, 2022
Calycomyza platyptera?? or is this the Astrotischeria? I've never seen that one at earlier stages of mine development.

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Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 1 - Calycomyza platyptera Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 2 - Calycomyza platyptera Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 3 - Calycomyza platyptera Kitty Hawk Beach leaf miner on Heterotheca subaxillaris D3979 2022 4 - Calycomyza platyptera
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Contributed by Tracy S. Feldman on 29 July, 2022 - 10:03pm
Last updated 3 September, 2022 - 7:35am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

It hasn't been reared from that host, but does appear to occur on it:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91896887
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47550311
There doesn't seem to be a parasitoid in the vial you sent. There is some tiny object in there, but it isn't an insect.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 September, 2022 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

 
Sorry for the false insect in
Sorry for the false insect in a vial--I thought I'd seen a parasitoid in there, but then it must have rotted before I had a chance to put it in the vial.
… Tracy S. Feldman, 3 September, 2022 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

I strongly suspect this is Ca
I strongly suspect this is Calycomyza platyptera--only a parasitoid emerged from specimens I collected. I wondered if this is a plausible guess?
… Tracy S. Feldman, 16 August, 2022 - 1:56pm login or register to post comments

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