Calycomyza, Hendel, 1931

Eiseman, Charles S. & Lonsdale, Owen, 2018, New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species, Zootaxa 4479 (1), pp. 1-156 : 38

Calycomyza sp. 1

( Fig. 121 )

Material examined. KANSAS: Riley Co., Konza Prairie Biological Station , 3.vii.2015, em. 26–30.vii.2015, C.S. Eiseman, ex Eupatorium altissimum , #CSE1850, CNC654486–654490 ( 5♀) .

Host. Asteraceae : Eupatorium altissimum L.

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 121 ) A yellowish, upper surface blotch, without conspicuous frass.

Puparium. Yellowish-brown, formed outside the mine.

Comments. These females resemble Calycomyza platyptera , but they are unlikely to be that species since its puparium is formed within the mine. The Nearctic Calycomyza species recorded from Eupatorium (as currently circumscribed) are C. artemisiae , C. eupatoriphaga , and C. flavinotum ; all three pupate externally but tend to produce conspicuous frass, and none is recorded from E. altissimum .

Figures

FIGURES 118–123. leaf mines; 118: Calycomyza solidaginis (Kaltenbach) in Solidago latissimifolia; 119: C. verbenae (Hering) in Ƒerbena urticifolia; 120: C. vogelmanni spec. nov. in Helianthus decapetalus; 121: Calycomyza sp. 1 in Eupatorium altissimum; 122: Calycomyza sp. 3 in Prenanthes sp.; 123: Calycomyza sp. 4 in Blephilia hirsuta.