Subfamily Ophiomyiinae

Classification · Identification · Remarks · Print References

Mating Flies - Melanagromyza - male - female

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Hypochaeris radicata D2983 adult maybe 2021 1 - Ophiomyia beckeri

Leafmine on New England Aster - Ophiomyia carolinensis

Cecidomyiidae on Heartleaf Aster - Ophiomyia parda

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

Identification

Features shared by members of this group include (1) large and bulging lunule with the insertion of the antenna below the midpoint of the head, and (2) subepandrial sclerite divided into two well-sclerotized plates.

Remarks

This subfamily was erected by Xuan et al. (2023) for all of the genera formerly placed in Agromyzinae except for Agromyza and Japanagromyza.

Print References

Xuan, Jing-Li, Sonja J. Scheffer, Matt Lewis, Brian K. Cassel, Wan-Xue Liu, and Brian M. Wiegmann. 2023. The phylogeny and divergence times of leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from anchored phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 184(107778): 1–12.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 11 January, 2024 - 5:20am

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