Phytomyza persicae Frick

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 : 81

Phytomyza persicae Frick

( Fig. 200 )

Material examined. MASSACHUSETTS: Hampshire Co., Southampton, 37 Middle Rd. , 18.x.2013, em. 21.iii.2014, C.S. Eiseman, ex Prunus persica , #CSE1015, CNC384791 (1♂) .

Host. Rosaceae : Prunus persica (L.) Batsch. Frost (1924) reported rearing adults from P. serotina Ehrh. , but his specimens have never been examined to verify their identity.

Leaf mine. ( Fig. 200 ) Yellowish-green, upper surface; long, narrow, entirely linear; frass in discrete, wellspaced, black grains. None of the mines we found were remotely “whitish,” as described by Spencer (1969) and Spencer & Steyskal (1986).

Puparium. Brown; formed within the mine, with the anterior spiracles projecting through the upper epidermis.

Distribution. USA: CT, *MA, NY ( Scheffer & Lonsdale 2018), OH, PA ( Frost 1924), VA; Canada: ON.

Figures

FIGURES 200–207. leaf mines; 200: Phytomyza persicae Frick in Prunus persica (transmitted light; puparium at bottom left); 201: P. plumiseta (Frost) in Thalictrum pubescens; 202: P. ranunculi (Schrank) in Ranunculus repens; 203: P. sempervirentis spec. nov. in Lonicera sempervirens, young mines; 204: same, completed mines; 205: P. solidaginivora Spencer in Doellingeria umbellata; 206: P. solidaginophaga Sehgal in Solidago rugosa; 207: P. spondylii heracleiphaga Spencer in Heracleum maximum (transmitted light).