Agromyza abiens Zetterstedt

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 : 5-6

Agromyza abiens Zetterstedt

( Figs. 1–2 )

Material examined. Ukraine: Kharkiv Region: Kharkiv, Piatykhatky, 50°05'42"N 36°15'38"E, 1.vi.2019 —pupation outside the mine, Yu. Guglya, ex Cynoglossum officinale (5 puparia); Kharkiv, City Center, 50°00'N, 36°14'E, 25.vi.2023 —pupation outside the mine, 29.viii.2023 —imago, Yu. Guglya, ex Echium vulgaris (1♂) ( Fig. 2 ); same locality, 12 and 16.vi.2023 —pupation outside the mine, Yu. Guglya, ex Cynoglossum officinale (1♂ 4♀); same locality, 3.vii.2023 —pupation outside the mine, Yu. Guglya, ex Cynoglossum officinale (1♂ 1♀); near Kamianka, 49°59'N, 37°49'E, 3.vi.2013 —pupation outside the mine, Yu. Guglya, ex Cerinthe minor (2 puparia); near Haidary, 49°37'N 36°19'E, 14–16.x.2018 —pupation outside the mine, Yu. Guglya, ex Cynoglossum officinale (5puparia); Donetsk Region: Kryva Luka, 48°52'34"N, 37°54'37"E, 3–4.vi.2019 —pupation outside the mine, x.2019 —dead imago found inside the puparia, Yu. Guglya, ex Cerinthe minor (5 puparia) ( Fig. 1 ).

Comments. Females of Agromyza abiens often lay numerous eggs on a single plant (as in fig. 2), resulting in a high degree of plant damage. Four generations were registered in Ukraine, with pupation in June, July, August and October. Imagos were captured from 26 May to 3 September. Host, mine, puparium, cephalopharingeal skeleton, female genitalia discussed in Guglya (2021).

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. Figures 1, 2: Agromyza abiens Zetterstedt; 1: mine in Cerinthe minor leaf; 2: numerous mines in Echium vulgaris leaves. Figures 3–6: Agromyza dipsaci Hendel; 3: mine in Dipsacus pilosus leaf; 4: puparium viewed from the side; 5: posterior segments of puparium (posterior view); 6: posterior spiracles (posterior view). Figure 7: numerous mines of Amauromyza (Amauromyza) carlinae (Hering) in Carlina biebersteini leaves.