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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Ophiomyiinae » Ophiomyia » Ophiomyia parda

Species Ophiomyia parda

Classification · Explanation of Names · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 parda (Ophiomyia parda)
Explanation of Names
Authors: Eiseman & Lonsdale, 2018 (1)
The specific epithet refers to the patterning of frass in the leaf mine, which is reminiscent of the spotted pattern of the leopard, Panthera pardus (L.).
Remarks
Larvae form long, narrow, entirely linear mines in Symphyotrichum. The distinctive leaf mines of this species have been attributed to Ophiomyia quinta in the past, but the only confirmed specimen of that species is the holotype, which was caught rather than reared.
Works Cited
1.New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species
Charles S. Eiseman & Owen Lonsdale. 2018. Zootaxa.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 20 February, 2009 - 9:01pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 14 September, 2018 - 5:21am

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