Phytomyza leslieae Lonsdale & Scheffer

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Phytomyza leslieae Lonsdale & Scheffer, 2011: 1191. Scheffer et al. 2021: 62.

Description.

As described for P. ilicicola except as follows:

Wing length 1.4-2.1 mm (♂), 1.4-1.8 mm (♀). Eye height divided by gena height: 3.5-5.2.

Chaetotaxy: Anterior ori 1/2 length of posterior ori.

Colouration: Gena usually very pale, strongly contrasting remainder of head, sometimes with yellowish tint. Pedicel relatively pale, never as dark as first flagellomere. Face yellowish centrally, with side and parafacial whitish, never dark grey. Fronto-orbital plate sometimes with dark stripe extending from lateral margin to base of one or both ors. Legs more uniformly brown with tibiae and tarsi variably whitish, at least in part on fore and mid legs; apex of femora sometimes narrowly yellowish.

Genitalia: (Figs 787-789) Surstylus short, broader apically. Epandrial process rounded with slight ventral curve. Sclerite of hypophallus directed posteriorly (not ventrally), subrectangular in general outline, with length 2 × width, and with irregular margins; posterior margin sometimes strongly convex. Mesophallus bulging on distal 1/2 and with length ~ 3 × width at midpoint. Paraphallus broad. Arms of distiphallus separate and bases not strongly diverging.

Hosts.

Aquifoliaceae - Ilex cassine, I. myrtifolia; possibly also I. opaca (Scheffer et al. 2021).

Distribution.

USA: AL, FL, MD, NC, SC.

Type material.

Holotype: USA. AL: Covington Co., Conecuh Natl. For., "Salt Pond" area, 10.i.1998, coll. S.J. Scheffer, 98-13, ex Ilex myrtifolia (1♂, USNM).

Additional material examined.

See Lonsdale and Scheffer (2011).