Aulagromyza Enderlein, 1936

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

Aulagromyza Enderlein

Aulagromyza Enderlein, 1936a: 180. Type species: Phytagromyza hamata Hendel, 1932: 283, by monotypy. von Tschirnhaus 1991: 304.

Paraphytomyza Enderlein, 1936a: 180. [nomen nudum - no type species designated].

Paraphytomyza Enderlein, 1936b: 43. Type species: Phytomyza xylostei Robineau-Desvoidy, 1851: 398, by original designation [= Phytagromyza luteoscutellata Meijere, 1924 - original type misidentified, corrected by ICZN (1988)]. Spencer 1969: 203, 1987a: 255, 1987b: 557; Spencer and Steyskal 1986b: 162. von Tschirnhaus 1991 [synonymy].

Rubiomyza Nowakowski, 1962: 102. Type species: Agromyza similis Brischke, 1881: 258, by original designation. Spencer 1969 [synonymy].

Literature prior to Spencer (1969) often grouped the Nearctic species of this genus in Phytagromyza , which became a synonym of Cerodontha when Nowakowski (1962) found that the type species, Agromyza flavocingulata Strobl, was a senior synonym of C. (Poemyza) semiatra Hendel - see Spencer (1969) for discussion. Following that publication, the name Paraphytomyza was used until von Tschirnhaus (1991) found that name to be a junior synonym of the previously monotypic Aulagromyza . Mirroring earlier proposals by Nowakowski (1962) and Spencer (1969), preliminary studies ( Zlobin 2007c; Winkler et al. 2009) are increasingly supportive of a polyphyletic Aulagromyza , with the unusual bright yellow Salicaceae -feeding species possibly being more closely related to Phytomyza . These include A. tridentata (Loew), which is treated below.

Species of Aulagromyza are diagnosed by a costa that ends at vein R4+5, the relative position of the cross-veins (if dm-m is present, it is distal to r-m, and if dm-m is absent then r-m is positioned far from bm-m), orbital setulae that are never proclinate (differentiating it from the similar Phytomyza ), and an absence of the posteromedial mid tibial setae. Larvae are stem and leaf miners in Apocynaceae , Asteraceae , Brassicaceae , Caprifoliaceae , Dipsacaceae , Fabaceae , Oleaceae , Rosaceae , Rubiaceae , and Salicaceae ( Zlobin 2007c).

Zlobin (2007c) recognised 52 World species, 40 of which were Palaearctic. Three species have been confirmed in the Delmarva states, but Eiseman and Lonsdale (2019) also reported mines likely attributable to Aulagromyza cornigera (Griffiths), a leaf miner on Caprifoliaceae .