Cerodontha (Butomomyza) Nowakowski

Lonsdale, Owen, 2021, Manual of North American Agromyzidae (Diptera, Schizophora), with revision of the fauna of the " Delmarva " states, ZooKeys 1051, pp. 1-481 : 1

Cerodontha (Butomomyza) Nowakowski

Cerodontha (Butomomyza) Nowakowski, 1967: 633. Type species Agromyza angulata Loew, by original designation. Spencer 1969: 110; Nowakowski 1973: 141; Spencer and Steyskal 1986b: 97; Zlobin 2001: 113.

Species in the subgenus Butomomyza , as defined by Nowakowski (1967), are recognisable by a lunule that is as wide as high or slightly higher, and at least in the Nearctic species examined here, the acrostichal setae are present and the body is often pale brown to brown. Furthermore, the shape of the lunule is subtriangular with bowed sides and often a pointed apex, and the surface is not textured, but covered with a minute velvety pubescence. Larvae also have one pair of rounded areas flanking the anus that are covered with black cuticular teeth that may reach the posterior spiracles. There are more than two dozen species, mostly in the north temperate regions, where they are known to mine in Cyperaceae and Poaceae ( Zlobin 2001).