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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae) » Pegomya group » Pegomya » Subgenus Pegomya (Pegomya Subgenus Pegomya) » bicolor section (Pegomya bicolor section) » Pegomya solennis

Species Pegomya solennis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Pegomya solennis ssp. rumicifoliae - Pegomya solennis - female Pegomya solennis ssp. rumicifoliae - Pegomya solennis - male Pegomya solennis ssp. rumicifoliae - Pegomya solennis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
No Taxon (Pegomya group)
Genus Pegomya
No Taxon (Subgenus Pegomya)
No Taxon (bicolor section)
Species solennis (Pegomya solennis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anthomyia solennis Meigen, 1826
Anthomyza nigritarsis Zetterstedt, 1838
Pegomyia rumicifoliae Huckett, 1941 (now considered a subspecies)
Pegomya nigritarsis rumicifoliae in Griffiths, 1982 (American subspecies)
Range
Northeastern USA, southern Canada west to Alberta, Europe
Food
Larvae are leaf miners in multiple species of Rumex (from which the American subspecies name rumicifoliae = "of rumex leaves")
Print References
Griffiths, G. C. D. 1982. Flies of the Nearctic Region Vol. VIII Part 2 Number 1.
Internet References
Species page (Pitkin et al. 2016)(1)
Works Cited
1.Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 16 January, 2013 - 6:51pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 25 November, 2016 - 10:22am

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