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

atomaria species group

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Unid Leafminer Dpd3 - Phytomyza penstemonis Unid Leafminer Gpl1 - Phytomyza plantaginis Unid Leafminer Gpl2 - Phytomyza plantaginis Unid Leafminer WPpsp3 - Phytomyza penstemonis Plantain Leaf Miner [=Dibolia borealis? or Phytomyza plantaginis??] ID Request - Phytomyza plantaginis Blowing Rock Boone Leaf miner on Veronica BR35 Phytomyza crassiseta 2016 5 - Phytomyza crassiseta Lousewort tip damage - Phytomyza Penstemon host - Phytomyza penstemonis
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 atomaria species group
Food
All known host plants are in the Lamiales (Orobanchaceae and Plantaginaceae, formerly Scrophulariaceae) and Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), except for Phytomyza lupini Sehgal (a stem borer on lupine, Fabaceae).
Life Cycle
Some larvae are leafminers; others bore in stems or feed in seedheads.
Print References
Winkler, Isaac S., Sonja J. Scheffer, and Charles Mitter. 2009. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae): delimitation of Phytomyza Fallén sensu lato and included species groups, with new insights on morphological and host-use evolution. Systematic Entomology 34:260–292.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 24 June, 2014 - 3:33pm
Last updated 23 December, 2015 - 2:42pm

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