Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess, 1880)

Ebejer, Martin J., 2021, The leaf-mining flies of the family Agromyzidae of the Maltese Islands are revisited and updated with new data and records (Diptera: Brachycera, Acalyptrata), Fragmenta entomologica 53 (1), pp. 93-104 : 98

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/487

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scientific name

Liriomyza trifolii
status

 

Liriomyza trifolii View in CoL (Burgess in Comstock, 1880)

Material examined: 2♂♂, 3♀♀, Malta: Balzan, 29 Sep–2 Oct 1998, reared from Heliotropium europeum . A highly polyphagous species that originated in North America, but is now cosmopolitan and a significant horticultural pest. Recorded as new for Malta by Černý (2005), but this species has been known from the islands since 1976 ( CABI, EPPO 1997).

CABI, EPPO 1997. Liriomyza trifolii. [Distribution map]. In: Distribution Maps of Plant Pests, Wallingford, UK: CAB International. Map 450. Liriomyza trifolii. [Distribution map]. (cabi. org) [accessed 6 December 2020].

Cerny M. 2005. Amauromyza (Amauromyza) maltensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Agromyzidae) with an account of the agromyzid mining flies of the Republic of Malta. Folia Heyrovskyana, 12 (2 - 3) (2004): 85 - 104.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

Genus

Liriomyza