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

Species Ophiomyia kwansonis - Daylily Leafminer

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Daylily Leaf Mine Maker [Ophiomyia? kwansonis??] ID request - Ophiomyia kwansonis

mine on Hemerocallis fulva (orange daylily) - Ophiomyia kwansonis

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 kwansonis (Daylily Leafminer)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ophiomyia kwansonis Sasakawa, 1961

Size

adult: 3 mm - FDA

larvae up to 5mm

Range

mostly: TX-FL-NY - FDA

Season

Mar-Sept in FL - FDA

Food

HOST PLANTS: Daylilies, genus Hemerocallis comprises approximately 22 species (Liliaceae). Over 60,000 registered varieties of daylily have been developed. - FDA

Remarks

Non native, from Japan. First detected in Florida on 17 March 2011

"The first possible evidence of this insect in the U.S. is an image posted at Bugguide.net, taken 4 July 2006 in Kennebunk, Maine by V.J. Hickey. It was described as a 3 mm fly, always seen on daylily flowers."

Print References

Sasakawa, M. 1961. A study of the Japanese Agromyzidae (Diptera) Part 2. Pacific Insects 3: 307-472.

Shiao, S.F. and W.J. Wu. 1999. Supplements to the species of Agromyzinae (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Taiwan, with notes on three new records. Chinese Journal of Entomology 19: 343-364.

Spencer, K.A. 1990. Host Specialization in the World Agromyzidae (Diptera). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, x + 444 pp.

Internet References

Florida Dept. of Agriculture - FDA

www.daylilies.org

University of Maryland

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 10 June, 2012 - 11:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn
Last updated 23 May, 2013 - 11:09am

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