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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Cerodontha » Subgenus Cerodontha (Cerodontha Subgenus Cerodontha) » Grass Sheathminer (Cerodontha dorsalis)

Species Cerodontha dorsalis - Grass Sheathminer

Representative Images

mating flies - Cerodontha dorsalis - male - female Apex leaf miner on Microstegium vimineum AP1 2016 3 - Cerodontha dorsalis Durham Glennstone preserve leaf miner on Dichanthelium D301 2016 1 - Cerodontha dorsalis Another acalyptrate fly? - Cerodontha dorsalis Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Dichanthelium species D1498 Cerodontha 2019 2 - Cerodontha dorsalis Grass stem mine - Cerodontha dorsalis tiny yellow fly - Cerodontha dorsalis St. Andrews leaf miner on Sphenopholis obtusata D1982 2021 2.1 - Cerodontha dorsalis

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 Phytomyzinae
Genus Cerodontha
No Taxon (Subgenus Cerodontha)
Species dorsalis (Grass Sheathminer)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Odontocera dorsalis Loew, 1863 (the genus name was already used for a genus of beetles, hence the change to Cerodontha)

Explanation of Names

Cerodontha dorsalis (Loew, 1863)

Range

Canada to Brazil

Remarks

Larvae mine leaves of grasses, including cereals and corn.

Internet References

ITIS
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 10 November, 2008 - 12:39pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Ted Kropiewnicki, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 4 December, 2023 - 10:26am

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