Amauromyza (Cephalomyza) flavifrons (Meigen)

Guglya, Yuliia, 2025, Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of two new species. Report 2, Zootaxa 5658 (1), pp. 1-86 : 18-19

Amauromyza (Cephalomyza) flavifrons (Meigen)

( Fig. 176, 177 )

Material examined. Ukraine: Kyiv Region: near Rzhyshchiv , 49°57'39"N, 31°07'47"E, 22–23.vi.2021 —pupation outside the mine, 5–7.vii.2021 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Cerastium glomeratum (2♂ 6♀) ; near Rzhyshchiv , ecostation “Hlyboki Balyky”, 49°57'44"N, 31°07'08"E, 23–25.vi.2021 —pupation outside the mine, 6–8.vii.2021 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Silene latifolia spp. alba (3♂ 1♀) ; same locality, 1.ix.2021 —pupation outside the mine, 19.ix.2021 — imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Silene latifolia spp. alba (2♂) ; Rzhyshchiv , deciduous forest, 49°58'25"N, 31°06'20"E, 25– 28.vi.2021 —pupation outside the mine, 7–9.vii.2021 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Stellaria aquatica (2♂ 2♀) ; Kharkiv Region: Kharkiv, City Center , 50°00'N, 36°14'E, 15.vi.2021 —pupation outside the mine, 26–27.vi.2021 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Gypsophila elegans (2♀) ; near Rubizhne , 50°07'N, 36°46'E, 21.v.2017, Yu. Guglya (1♀) ; near Petrivske , 49°10'N, 36°58'E, 28.vi.2021 —mine with larva collected, x.2021 —dried imago found inside the puparium, Yu. Guglya, ex Silene latifolia spp. alba (2♀) ; same locality, 10.vi.2020 —pupation outside the mine, 22.vi.2020 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Silene baccifera (1♀) ; Donetsk Region: Kryva Luka , 48°52'34"N, 37°54'37"E, 4.vi.2019 —pupation outside the mine, 14.vi.2019 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Phlox drummondii (1♀ 4 puparia) .

Hosts. Caryophyllaceae : Agrostemma L., Cerastium Toum ex L., Dianthus L., Gypsophila L., Moehringia L., Saponaria L., Silene L., Stellaria L.; Amaranthaceae : Beta L., Spinacia L. ( Benavent-Corai et al. 2005); Vaccaria Wolf. ( Dempewolf 2004) ; Amaranthaceae : Beta vulgaris L., Spinacia oleracea L. ( Scheffer 1999); Brassicaceae : Lepidium draba L.; Asteraceae : Catananche caerulea L. ( Gil-Ortiz et al. 2009), Bidens L. ( Lonsdale et al. 2023); Polymoniaceae: Phlox drummondii Hook. —a newly recorded host plant.

Female genitalia. ( Figs. 176, 177 ) Spermathecae of medium size, 0.23× as high as height of anterior part of oviscape. Proctiger relatively wide, 2.4× as long as maximum width; cylindrical in posterior half, anterior half conical; pair of long setae located on posterior margin between cerci. Cercus as long as wide, with shallowly rounded apex, 0.3× as long as proctiger; patches of short setae located apically, long setae located apically and internolaterally.

Comments. Hosts, mine, puparium, cephalopharingeal skeleton and spermathecae depicted and described in Guglya (2021).

Figures

FIGURES 176–180. Figures 176–177: Amauromyza (C.) flavifrons (Meigen); 176: oviscape, proctiger and spermathecae proportionally; 177: proctiger. Figure 178: Phytomyza lycopi Nowakowski, proctiger. Figures 179, 180: Phytomyza melana Hendel; 179: wing; 180: proctiger.