Pseudonapomyza asiatica Spencer, 1961

Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago, Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro & Esposito, Maria Cristina, 2019, Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil, Zootaxa 4624 (2), pp. 151-182 : 178

Pseudonapomyza asiatica Spencer, 1961

Figures 32–33

Pseudonapomyza asiatica Spencer, 1961: 92 ; Spencer, 1973b: 264; Etienne & Martinez, 2003: 262; Boucher, 2004: 783.

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.2–1.6 mm. Fronto-orbital black, slightly projected above eye in lateral view; face, frons and antenna black; first flagellomere angulate dorsally; mesonotum black; calypter white, fringe white. Aedeagus (Fig. 32 and 33): basiphallus sclerotized; mesophallus short and globose; distiphallus stout, sclerotized, bearing many tubercles and ending in two short tubules distally.

Host-plants. Poaceae— Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Echinchloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv., Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn., Eragrostis Pilosa (L.) P. Beauv., Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees., Oryza sativa L., Panicum repens L., Paspalum conjugatum P.J. Berg. , Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv.

Distribution. * Brazil, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, USA, Venezuela.

Material examined. Brazil, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará ( UFPA), 1º28′25.0″S, 48º27′20.7″W, 20-IX-2016, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Panicum repens L. (6 ♀) ; same location, 11-I-I7, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Panicum repens L. (6 ♀) ; same location, 11-I-I7, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Panicum repens L. (3 ♀) .

Comments. Only four species of the genus Pseudonapomyza Hendel are known in the New World, most of them in the Nearctic Region. Pseudonapomyza asiatica is the only species recorded in the Neotropical Region ( Boucher 2004). It is also widely distributed in the Old World, and is a leaf-miner of several Poaceae species ( Spencer 1990).