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Issue: Vol. 4088 No. 3: 10 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.10
Page range: 445–450
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 2

Description of a nomen nudum species of Liriomyza Mik and the first record of Liriomyza blechi Spencer from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Agromyzidae)

Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, PA, Brasil.
Graduate student of Biology at Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brasil.
Diptera Neotropics fly leaf-miner Amaranthaceae Acanthaceae Loganiaceae

Abstract

The nomen nudum Liriomyza flagellae is formerly described in this paper as Liriomyza valladaresae sp. nov., based on male and female specimens collected in the Brazilian Amazon and reared from leaves of Alternanthera tenella and Amaranthus viridis (Amaranthaceae). Information on the puparium and the biology of this new species are provided. The species Liriomyza blechi, previously recorded from the U.S.A., Guadeloupe and Dominican Republic, is newly recorded from Brazil, reared from leaves of Blechum pyramidatum (Acanthaceae) and Spigelia anthelmia (Loganiaceae).

 

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