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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Leaf Miner Flies (Agromyzidae) » Phytomyzinae » Calycomyza

Genus Calycomyza

Representative Images

Liriomyza sp.? - Calycomyza Unid Leafminer WWsj1 - Calycomyza solidaginis Sunflower Leaf Mine ID Request - Calycomyza platyptera Forget-me-not mine - Calycomyza cynoglossi Laurinburg leaf miner on Hieracium gronovii D2202 2020 4 - Calycomyza St. Andrews leaf miner on Solidago odora SA1756 2020 1 - Calycomyza solidaginis New Hope Bottomlands leaf miner Calycomyza on Lycopus rubellus D4724 2023 2 - Calycomyza menthae Agromyzidae, lateral - Calycomyza menthae

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 Calycomyza

Explanation of Names

Calycomyza Hendel 1931

Identification

Normally with frons and notopleuron yellow and scutellum black.(1)

Range

Widespread in the New World plus two native Old World species.

Works Cited

1.Manual of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of the United States - Agriculture Handbook Number 638
Kenneth A. Spencer and George C. Steyskal. 1986. United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service.
Contributed by Tom Bentley on 2 April, 2009 - 6:37pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 5 September, 2015 - 7:39am

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