Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

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Calendar

Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27


angelicae species group

Representative Images

Spiral mine with a tail - Phytomyza aralivora Leaf mine - Phytomyza angelicae Mines of Aralia nudicaulis - Phytomyza aralivora Agromyzidae on Wild Sarsaparilla - Phytomyza aralivora mine in sarsaparilla - Phytomyza aralivora Agromyzidae, Wild Sarasparilla - Phytomyza aralivora Linear mine on Aralia nudicaulis - Phytomyza aralivora Phytomyza aralivora

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 Phytomyza
No Taxon angelicae species group

Food

Where known, the hosts of all species in this group are plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae, including Araliaceae).