Liriomyza cicerina (Rondani)

Guglya, Yuliia, 2021, Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of seven new species, Zootaxa 5014 (1), pp. 1-158 : 50

Liriomyza cicerina (Rondani)

( Figs. 143–146 , 475–480 )

Material examined: Ukraine: Vinnytsa Region: Olhopil , 48°07’42”N, 29°39’25”E, 10.v.2019, Yu. Guglya (1♂) ; Poltava Region: Hlobino , 49°23’39”N, 33°14’22”E, 6–10.viii.2019, Yu. Guglya, ex Cicer arietinum (20♂ 23♀) ; near Shushvalivka , 49°20’56”N, 32°54’25”E, 14.viii.2018, A. Gumovsky (32♂ 52♀) .

Hosts. Fabaceae : Cicer arietinum L., Ononis arvensis L., O. repens L., O. spinosa L., Anthyllis L., Melilotus Mill. ( Papp & Černý 2017) , Coronilla L., Hymenocarpos Savi , Medicago L. ( Warrington 2021).

Mine. ( Fig. 143 ) The solitary larva forms a yellow irregular linear-blotch mine. Pupation takes place outside the mine.

Puparium. ( Figs. 144–146 ) Yellow, translucent, glossy, 2.0 mm long, with distinct segmentation; surface quite smooth except for wide spine bands. Posterior spiracles set on wide and short conical protuberances that are entirely separate; brown, with eight to ten sessile bulbs arranged in semicircle. Anal plate brown, protruding above the surface of the puparium viewed from the side and directed ventrally.

Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. ( Fig. 475 ) Right mouthhook much larger than the left, each bearing two accessory teeth. Intermediate sclerite widening posteriorly, 1.18× as long as maximum height of left mouthhook. Parastomal bar exist, slightly curved dorso-anteriorly. The mouthhook, intermediate sclerite dorso-anteriorly and dorsal portion of the dorsal cornu are strongly sclerotized; the intermediate sclerite ventro-posteriorly, dorsal cornu ventrally and ventral cornu are much less so. Indentation index 87.

Female head. ( Figs. 476, 477 ) Yellowish-orange, with palpus, orbit along the eye with areolae of fr s and orb s, pedicel, pped, arista, postgena and hind margin of eye dorsally brown; oc tr black; orbit projecting above eye in profile, 2 orb s, 2 fr s; lunule low, semicircular, reaching the level of the posterior fr s; pped of medium size, rounded; gena medially 0.3× as high as maximum height of eye.

Thorax viewed from the side. ( Fig. 478 ) Yellow, with prepst, anapist medially, most of kepst and mr black; pprn dorsally, anepist posteriorly, anepm medially, mtkepst and anatg are blackish. Calypter dirty yellow, margin and fringe dirty yellow to grey. Cx 1 in proximal half, cx 2 and cx 3 blackish.

Female genitalia. ( Figs. 479, 480 ) Capsule of spermatheca is of medium size, 0.34× as high as height of anterior part of oviscape. Spermathecae equal in size, dark brown, spherical, slightly acute and less sclerotized basally. Spermathecal duct weakly sclerotized.

Distribution. A West Palaearctic species: Austria, Cyprus, British Isles, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Lithuania, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunis, Turkey, Ukraine and former Yugoslavia ( Papp & Černý 2017).

Figures

FIGURES 138–149. Figures 138–142: Liriomyza bryoniae (Kaltenbach); 138–139: mines in Gypsophyla paniculata: 138: leaf and stem (indicated by arrow); 139: in leaf. 140–141: posterior segments of puparium; 140: lateral view; 141: posterior view. 142: posterior spiracles (posterior view). Figures 143–146: L. cicerina (Rondani); 143: mines in Cicer arietinum leaf; 144–145: posterior segments of puparium; 144: lateral view; 145: posterior view. 146: posterior spiracles (posterior view). Figures 147–149: L. congesta (Becker); 147–148: posterior segments of puparium; 147: lateral view; 148: posterior view. 149: posterior spiracles (posterior view).

FIGURES 475–480. Liriomyza cicerina (Rondani); 475: cephalopharyngeal skeleton; 476: frontal view of head; 477: head viewed from the side; 478: thorax viewed from the side; 479: oviscape and spermathecae proportionally; 480: spermatheca.