Phytomyza ranunculi Schrank

• Main Authors: Eiseman, Charles S., Lonsdale, Owen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Agromyzidae; Phytomyza; Phytomyza ranunculi; Canada; Greenland; Lily Pond; Nantucket; Faroes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5997928; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997928

Phytomyza ranunculi (Schrank) (Fig. 202) Material examined. MAINE: Washington Co., Perry, Birch Point, 15.vi.2014, em. 30.vi.2014, C.S. Eiseman, ex Ranunculus repens, #CSE1142, CNC384883, CNC384884 (2♀); MASSACHUSETTS: Nantucket Co., Nantucket, Lily Pond, 10.vi.2016, em. 28.vi.2016, C.S. Eiseman, ex Ranunculus repens, #CSE2645, CNC654249 (1♀). Hosts. Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus abortivus L. (Sehgal 1971), R. repens L. Leaf mine. (Fig. 202) Whitish; entirely linear, but sometimes so contorted as to form a secondary blotch. Frass is mostly in discrete but closely spaced black grains. Puparium. Grayish or brown; formed outside the mine. Distribution. USA: CA, CO, *MA, *ME, OR (Frick 1959), WA (Frick 1959); Canada: AB, NL, NS; Europe (including the Faroes, Iceland, and Greenland (Griffiths 1964, 1966)); Japan; Tanzania (Černý & Tschirnhaus 2014). Published as part of Eiseman, Charles S. & Lonsdale, Owen, 2018, New state and host records for Agromyzidae (Diptera) in the United States, with the description of thirty new species, pp. 1-156 in Zootaxa 4479 (1) on page 81, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4479.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1452913