Schizomyia maricaensis Sousa & Maia, 2007

Urso-Guimarães, Maria V., 2019, Description of the male and larva of Schizomyia tuiuiu Urso- Guimarães & Amorim (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), new records and a key to Neotropical species of Schizomyia Kieffer, Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2019017) 109, pp. 1-6 : 5

New record to Schizomyia maricaensis Sousa & Maia, 2007 .

Schizomyia maricaensis Sousa & Maia, 2007 was described from Restinga de Barra de Maricá/ RJ inducing rosette bud galls in Tetrapterys phlomoides (Malpighiaceae) . Herein, I am recording a new locality of geographical distribution to this species, which pupa and female emerged from swollen leaf veins of an unidentified liana with vein leaf swollen were collected in ciliary forest vegetation area in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The specimens were identified as S. maricaensis due to the characters of the female ovipositor ( Fig. 13 ) and the unique terminal segment of pupa, bilobed and sclerotized ( Fig. 14 ). Pupation occurs in the gall.

Examined material. 2♀, 1 pupal exuvia, BRAZIL, São Paulo: Ribeirão Preto (21°07’28.2”S, 47°39’46.4”W, 527 m a.s.l.), gall collected 10.i.2002, emerged 10.i.2002; Dr. Olga Kotchetkoff-Henriques coll.

Figures

Figs 13, 14. Schizomyia maricaensis Sousa & Maia, 2007: 13, ovipositor (ventro-lateral view, left); 14, terminal segment bilobed and sclerotized of pupa (dorsal view, right).