New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species
Author
Eiseman, Charles S.
Author
Lonsdale, Owen
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-14
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journal article
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Agromyza vockerothi
Spencer
(
Fig. 79
)
Material
examined.
MASSACHUSETTS
:
Franklin Co., Northfield,
Crag Mountain
,
11.x.2013
, em.
27.iii.2014
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Rubus
(
blackberry
), #CSE1030,
CNC384794
(
1♂
)
;
Northfield
, 276
Old Wendell Rd.
,
27.vi.2017
, em.
22.vii.2017
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Rubus
occidentalis
, #CSE3993,
CNC939674
(
1♂
)
;
Nantucket Co.
,
Nantucket
,
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Bird Sanctuary
(
North Beach St.
),
11.vi.2013
, em.
22.viii.2013
,
C.S. Eiseman
, ex
Rubus
(
blackberry
), #CSE829,
CNC392662
(
1♂
)
;
NORTH CAROLINA
:
Durham Co.
,
Durham
,
Glennstone Preserve
,
29.v.2017
, em.
24.viii.2017
,
T.S. Feldman
, ex
Rubus
pensilvanicus
, #CSE4179,
CNC939838
(
1♂
)
.
Hosts.
*
Rosaceae
:
Rubus
cf.
allegheniensis
Porter
,
R.
occidentalis
L.
,
R. pensilvanicus
Poir.
Leaf mine.
(
Fig. 79
) A long, gradually widening, linear mine with frass in small grains.
Puparium.
Reddish-brown; formed outside the mine.
Distribution.
USA
: *MA, NC, TN;
Canada
: AB, BC, NS, ON.
Comments.
Our rearing records indicate this species is bivoltine, with larvae feeding in late spring and early summer and in autumn.
Spencer (1969
,
1990
) and
Spencer & Steyskal (1986)
reported a long, white, upper surface linear mine, relatively wide at the end, caused by an unidentified
Agromyza
on
Rubus
idaeus
L. and
R. odoratus
L. in
Ontario
,
Minnesota
, and
Virginia
. This may well have been the work of
A. vockerothi
. We have seen similar mines (including in photographs submitted to www.BugGuide.net) on these and other
Rubus
spp., including
R. allegheniensis
Porter
,
R. armeniacus
Focke
,
R. hispidus
L., and
R. parviflorus
Nutt.
, in
Connecticut
,
Idaho
,
Iowa
,
Maine
,
Maryland
,
New Hampshire
,
New York
,
Ohio
,
Oregon
,
Rhode Island
,
Washington
,
Wisconsin
, and
New Brunswick
.