Agromyza

Taxobox
name = "Agromyza"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Opomyzoidea
familia = Agromyzidae
subfamilia = Agromyzinae
genus = "Agromyza"
genus_authority = Fallén, 1810
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Many, see text

"Agromyza" is a genus of flies belonging to the family Agromyzidae. The adults of these flies can be recognised by the presence of stridulatory files on the first two abdominal tergites in both males and females. Another useful identifying feature is the halteres which are usually white or yellow, although they are darker in a few tropical species.

The larvae of these flies are mostly leaf-miners on a wide range of plants althrough a few form galls. Some are economic pests.

pecies

Species include:

*"Agromyza albipennis"
*"Agromyza ambigua"
*"Agromyza apfelbecki"
*"Agromyza cinerascens"
*"Agromyza drepanura"
*"Agromyza frontella"
*"Agromyza intermittens"
*"Agromyza luteitarsis"
*"Agromyza megalopsis"
*"Agromyza nana"
*"Agromyza nigrella"
*"Agromyza nigrociliata"
*"Agromyza oryzae"
*"Agromyza parvicornis"
*"Agromyza rondensis"
*"Agromyza yanonis"

References

* [http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/agromyzidae.php Arthropods of Economic Significance - Agromyzidae of the World]

External links

* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/veg/leaf/corn_blotch_leafminer.htm "Agromyza parvicornis ", corn blotch leafminer] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site