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03EC5B27FFA8A42CB420FDF0FEC28D89.text	03EC5B27FFA8A42CB420FDF0FEC28D89.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Agromyza Fallen 1810	<div><p>Genus  Agromyza Fallén, 1810</p><p>Agromyza Fallén, 1810: 21 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Agromyza nigripes Meigen, 1830 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This genus is easily recognized by the presence of a stridulatory organ, in the form of a band of chitinized scales on the side of the abdomen along the margin of the fused tergites 1 and 2. The adults are usually completely black with white or yellow halter (except for the Neotropical species  A. fusca Spencer, 1963 with black halter and  A. insolens Spencer, 1963 with brownish halter), usually have three or more pairs of dc (a few species with only two well-developed postsutural dc and a third small one.  Agromyza megaepistoma Sasakawa, 2005 from Ecuador has only two postsutural dc with rarely a third small one) and well-developed prsc. A single male specimen of  Agromyza was collected on the Mitaraka massif (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) and represents a new species that is described below.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA8A42CB420FDF0FEC28D89	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA8A42CB5F6FB32FBD28E0B.text	03EC5B27FFA8A42CB5F6FB32FBD28E0B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Agromyza mitarakensis Boucher 2025	<div><p>Agromyza mitarakensis Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Fig. 1)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 42F0BECA-D5CF-4EEC-BA4E-6A6987512C15</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name refers to the type locality.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species differs from other Neotropical species of  Agromyza by the strongly angulate gena, greyish calypter with brown fringe, dirty yellow halter, small epistoma, yellowish antennae, long acrostichal setulae, two well-developed postsutural dc, and the arista with short, but distinct pubescence.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST PLANTS. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; frons width including orbital plates 0.25 mm at midpoint; orbital plate 0.25 × width of frons at midpoint; two reclinate ors and two slightly weaker inclinate ori; orbital setulae sparse, short and reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small with short white pubescence; arista long with distinct pubescence; gena angulate, deeper at rear (Fig. 1A), at midpoint about 0.1 × maximum eye height; clypeus with upper margin rounded (Fig. 1B); small epistoma present (Fig. 1B); only two well-developed postsutural dc located posterior to supra-alar, with possibly one much smaller postsutural anterior dc on one side only; prsc well-developed; acrostichal setulae long and numerous, in about 8-9 rows; mid tibia with two posterolateral setae; wing length approximately 1.95 mm (wing bent); last section of M 4 0.6 × length of penultimate section.</p><p>Colour</p><p>Frons and orbital plate pale brown, upper frons blackish at level of ocelli; scape and pedicel pale brown, first flagellomere yellowish; face and palpus brown; gena brown with yellowish spot at rear; clypeus brown, subshining; mesonotum and scutellum shiny brown; side of thorax (all pleura) brown; legs brown; calypter and fringe brown; halter yellow apically, with stalk and base of knob brownish; abdomen yellowish brown.</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Phallus (Fig. 1D, E) symmetrical, with distiphallus short and broad; hypandrium pointed at apex; ejaculatory apodeme with narrow blade (Fig. 1C).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This new species has a characteristic ejaculatory apodeme with a narrow blade as seen for  A. simillima Spencer, 1963 from Brazil (Spencer 1963). The two species also share only two well-developed dc. The phallus of  A. simillima has never been illustrated. Pictures of the phallus (on permanent mount) and habitus of the holotype specimen of  A. simillima (Fig. 2), provided by the Natural History Museum, London (NHM), confirm that the two species are different. The distiphallus of  A. simillima is much narrower and elongate (Fig. 2A). Furthermore, the arista of  A. simillima is described as conspicuously plumose (Spencer 1963), which is not the case in  A. mitarakensis Boucher,  n. sp. The head of the holotype of  A. simillima is glued to a cardboard point separated from the rest of the specimen, but the aristae are missing (Fig. 2C). The phallus of  A. mitarakensis Boucher,  n. sp. is similar to that of  A. animata Spencer, 1973 from Costa Rica (Spencer 1973a), but the latter species has three well-developed dc and darker antennae. The ejaculatory apodeme of  A. animata has not been described nor illustrated yet.  Agromyza mitarakensis Boucher,  n. sp. was listed as morphospecies  Agromyza Mit- 1 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA8A42CB5F6FB32FBD28E0B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA8A42EB6B9F8B4FB7C8C29.text	03EC5B27FFA8A42EB6B9F8B4FB7C8C29.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycomyza Hendel 1931	<div><p>Genus  Calycomyza Hendel, 1931</p><p>Calycomyza Hendel, 1931: 65 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Agromyza artemisiae Kaltenback, 1856 .</p><p>A B C</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Most species of  Calycomyza are characterized externally by a yellow frons, dark antennae, yellow notopleuron, dark scutellum, pale yellowish halter and the presence of only two postsutural dc. However, exceptions exist, such as:  C. meridiana (Hendel, 1923), a widespread neotropical species, with yellow third antennal segment;  C. devia Spencer, 1973 from Venezuela and Costa Rica with a brownish frons and darker notopleural areas;  C. compositana Spencer, 1973,  C. illustris Spencer, 1973,  C. steviae Spencer, 1973,  C. parilis Spencer, 1973 and  C. palmaris Spencer, 1973, all from Venezuela, have 3+ 1 dc. The latter two species also feature a brown halter. A distinctive characteristic of the genus is the male genitalia with the epandrium and surstyli having a patch of short strong spines. Seven specimens of  Calycomyza were collected on the Mitaraka massif, representing four species (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021). Two of them were represented by females only (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) and their identity could not yet be confirmed. These two species are characterized by the presence of 3+ 1 dc (two weaker anterior ones). Of the other two species, one represents  C. grenadensis Zlobin, 1996 (morphospecies  Calycomyza Mit-1 sensu Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021), which was previously known from Grenada (Zlobin 1996a) (see below), and the other (morphospecies  Calycomyza Mit-2 sensu Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) represents a new species, which is described below. Only one species,  Calycomyza lantanae (Frick, 1956) was previously recorded from French Guiana (Anonymous 2018).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA8A42EB6B9F8B4FB7C8C29	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFAAA420B6A5FA95FE718EEB.text	03EC5B27FFAAA420B6A5FA95FE718EEB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin 1996	<div><p>Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin, 1996</p><p>(Fig. 3)</p><p>Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin, 1996a: 153 . — Martinez &amp; Étienne 2002: 29.</p><p>MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guyane • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN  .</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — The distinctive characteristics of this species include the long strongly chitinized projection of the hind ventral lobe of the phallus (Zlobin 1996a), prominent in the Mitaraka specimen (Fig. 3C, arrow), the shape of the distiphallus with two well-sclerotized sclerites broadly separated at the base (Fig. 3D) and the shape of the ejaculatory apodeme with the blade only 2.3 × larger (at its widest point) than the stalk at midpoint (Fig. 3B).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — Grenada, French Guiana (new record).</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>There are slight differences between the Mitaraka specimens and the original description of the species. They include the orbital plate darkened to upper ors only, continuing faintly on lateral margin to lower ors in male (Fig. 1A) (darkened to lower ors in original description) and the face darkened at base of antennae (face yellow in original description). Other characteristics worth mentioning, but not part of the original description, are the presence of three postsutural dc, including two well-developed and a much shorter anterior dc; and the mid tibia with three short lateral setae. Until now, this species was only known from the type material from Grenada. This species was previously identified as morphospecies  Calycomyza Mit- 1 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFAAA420B6A5FA95FE718EEB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA4A422B68BF9D4FC5C8BC8.text	03EC5B27FFA4A422B68BF9D4FC5C8BC8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher 2025	<div><p>Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Figs 4; 5)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 70413387-20D4-475F-961F-B2FF18E699F4</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open / partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230 sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name refers to the habitat (inselberg) of the type specimen.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species differs from other Neotropical species of  Calycomyza by the following features: halter and notopleuron pale brown; calypter and fringe brown; orbital plate brown to lower ors; postpronotum and anepisternum almost completely brown; male genitalia with a very large ring-like sclerite at the base of distiphallus.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST PLANTS. — Possibly  Verbenaceae (see Remarks).</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; frons narrow, width including orbital plates 0.22 mm at midpoint; two reclinate ors and two weaker inclinate ori; orbital setulae sparse, short and reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short white pubescence; arista long with distinct pubescence (Fig. 4A, C); gena at midpoint about 0.1 × eye height; clypeus narrow with anterior margin rounded (Fig. 4B); small triangular epistoma present (Fig. 4B); two well-developed postsutural dc distant from each other, and one weaker third postsutural dc (on right side only); prsc absent; acrostichal setulae in about 7-8 rows; mid tibia with two approximate posterolateral setae; wing length approximately 1.7 mm (wing bent) with last section of M 4 1.6 × penultimate section.</p><p>Colour</p><p>Frons yellow; upper orbital plate brown to lower ors (Fig. 4C); antenna brown; face apparently partly pale brown (partly hidden by the antennae); palpus brown; clypeus dull brown, paler brown centrally; mesonotum and scutellum shiny brown; postpronotum brown except for narrowly yellow hind corner; notopleuron brownish (Fig. 4A), slightly paler, yellowish ventrally; anepisternum, katepisternum and anepimeron brown; legs brown except for narrowly yellow fore knee; calypter and fringe brown; halter slightly darkened, pale brown (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Distiphallus in the shape of two long tubules with apical section bent to almost 90° and basal section surrounded by a large ring-like sclerite that extends far beyond the width of the tubules in ventral and lateral view (Fig. 5A, B); length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite 0.1 mm (Fig. 5A, arrow a), equal to the length of mesophallus (Fig. 5A, arrow b); epandrium with numerous short internal spines (Fig. 5C); surstyli with short spines and a few (4-5) long setae on upper margin (Fig. 5C); hypandrium narrow and slightly constricted near midpoint; ejaculatory apodeme large with wide blade (Fig. 5D).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The male genitalia of this new species are most similar to those of  C. verbenivora Spencer, 1963, which feeds on various plants in the family  Verbenaceae . The type specimen of the latter species from Venezuela, illustrated in Spencer (1963), apparently has the lower tubule broken off (see comment in Spencer 1973b: 49), but the upper tubule is complete, and it is distinctly longer than the mesophallus, quite different from  C. inselbergensis Boucher,  n. sp. Another difference is the ring-like sclerite at the base of the distiphallus which is distinctly wider in  C. inselbergensis Boucher,  n. sp. Additional illustrations of the phallus of  C. verbenivora from Argentina (Valladares 1981) and Peru (Korytkowsky 2014) more closely resemble the phallus of  C. inselbergensis Boucher,  n. sp. (except for the size of the ring-like sclerite), but  C. verbenivora shows significant external differences that are diagnostic: calypter yellow with fringe partially to completely yellow; arista virtually bare; orbital plate bright yellow; and notopleuron, posterior half of postpronotum and upper posterior corner of anepisternum bright yellow. Externally  C. inselbergensis Boucher,  n. sp. is most similar to  C. verbenae (Hering, 1951), a species known from southern United States and Brazil (Spencer 1963; Esposito 1994), but the male genitalia of the two species are distinct.  Calycomyza verbenae is separated externally from  C. verbenivora by the darker, distinctly black calypteral fringe and black face (Spencer 1963). Like  C. verbenivora,  C. verbenae feeds on species of  Verbena L. and other plants in the family  Verbenaceae (Benavent-Corai et al. 2005) . This species was initially listed as morphospecies  Calycomyza Mit- 2 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021), along with an additional female specimen. After reconsideration, the female specimen is not included here as a paratype due to uncertain conspecificity. The female differs from the male by its yellow halter, yellow face, mid tibial setae that are further apart, and a shiny brown clypeus.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA4A422B68BF9D4FC5C8BC8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA6A422B6B3FCF3FC6C8CEA.text	03EC5B27FFA6A422B6B3FCF3FC6C8CEA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cerodontha Rondani 1861	<div><p>Genus  Cerodontha Rondani, 1861</p><p>Cerodontha Rondani, 1861: 10 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Chlorops denticornis Panzer, 1806</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The genus  Cerodontha is classified into seven subgenera ( Butomomyza Nowakowski, 1967,  Cerodontha,  Dizygomyza Hendel, 1920,  Icteromyza Hendel, 1931,  Phytagromyza Hendel, 1920,  Poemyza Hendel, 1931, and  Xenophytomyza Frey, 1946). All subgenera have been recorded in the Neotropical region, except for  Phytagromyza, which is exclusively Holarctic. The species are quite variable externally, but the male genitalia is characteristic with a well-developed mesophallus and long tubular distiphallus. In addition, all species in the genus  Cerodontha have in common an L-shape sclerite inside the epandrium (the subepandrial sclerite or “Langfortsatz” of previous authors). A single specimen of  Cerodontha was collected on the Mitaraka massif and belongs to the subgenus  Dizygomyza . This subgenus is characterized by a large lunule and typically an enlarged first flagellomere in the male, although there are a few exceptions, including the new species described below.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA6A422B6B3FCF3FC6C8CEA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA6A424B669F9D4FBC38856.text	03EC5B27FFA6A424B669F9D4FBC38856.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) pseudonigrihalterata Boucher 2025	<div><p>Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) pseudonigrihalterata Boucher, n. sp.</p><p>(Fig. 6)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D8EB99BF-D8FE-442C-B9D8-16B4C8A5E4A2</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; Mitaraka, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name is derived from the Greek word “Pseudo” meaning false and refers to the similarity of this species to  Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) nigrihalterata Boucher, 2005 .</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species can be differentiated from all other  Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) species by the combination of the following characters: knob of halter completely brown, only one ors, wing infuscated in cell R 1 and R 2+3, only 2 dc, male with first flagellomere small, patch of reclinate orbital setulae at level of ori; frons not projecting in front of eye in profile.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile (Fig. 6A); orbital plate broad, 0.37 × width of frons at midpoint and only slightly widening anteriorly; width of frons including orbital plates 0.30 mm at midpoint; eye seemingly bare, at most with a few scattered hairs; lunule broad, partly covered by large orbital plate (Fig. 6B); lunule and anterior orbital plate with a patch of silvery pubescence (Fig. 6B) especially in posterodorsal view; orbital plate and ocellar triangle shining; frons with black microtomentum; one reclinate ors and three ori (anterior two inclinate and upper ori lateroclinate on one side); orbital setulae reclinate, numerous, forming a patch at level of ori; first flagellomere small (Fig. 6A), rounded apically with short white pubescence, longer posteriorly; arista long (0.5 mm) with long pubescence (Fig. 6A); small raised keel present between antennae; gena at midpoint about 0.16 × of maximum eye height; clypeus medium width with upper margin rounded, slightly projecting and distinctly visible in lateral view; palpus with 7-9 long hairs apically (Fig. 6A); two postsutural dc; prsc absent; acrostichal setulae in 7-8 rows; mid tibia with one long apical seta of approximately 0.15 mm (Fig. 6E); wing length approximately 1.9 mm (wing bent); last section of M 4 approximately 0.7 × length of penultimate section; wing conspicuously infuscated in cell R 1 and R 2+3.</p><p>Colour</p><p>Body completely brown, except for orbital plate yellowish anteriorly (Fig. 6B) and base of first flagellomere and base of arista yellowish; halter with knob completely brown, stalk paler; legs brown, with tarsi at most slightly paler; calypter yellow, fringe short and pale brown.</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Distiphallus in the form of two tubules, almost equal in length as mesophallus and with a short, square, terminal process (Fig. 6C, D); hypandrium broad and rounded; epandrium with apical long hairs (Fig. 6F); surstylus with five spines (only three visible in Fig. 6F); subepandrial sclerite (“Langfortsatz”) narrow, elongate (Figs 6F); anal projection of epandrium prominent, longer than wide; ejaculatory apodeme with short stalk (Fig. 6G).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This species is most similar to the Costa Rican C. (Diz.)  nigrihalterata Boucher, 2005 (Fig. 7). An attempt was made to have both species barcoded, which ultimately failed (Boucher &amp; Savage 2022). Externally the two species have a few important similarities including the presence of only one ors and three ori, dark knob of halter, wing infuscated in cell R 1 and R 2+3, lunule and anterior orbital plate with silvery pubescence and mid tibia with a strong apical spine. The phallus of both species is also similar. The holotype of  C. nigrihalterata illustrated in Boucher (2005) has the distal tubules of the phallus divergent, but it is parallelsided (as seen in C. (Diz.) pseudonigrihalterara Boucher,  n. sp.) in a paratype shown in Fig. 7C, D.  Cerodontha (Diz.) nigrihalterata differs from the new species described here by having a projecting frons (Fig. 7A), the palpus with normal setae, the first flagellomere slightly enlarged in the male (Fig. 7B), tarsal segments paler yellow, mesonotum with three postsutural dc, the ejaculatory apodeme with a long and narrow stalk (Fig. 7E, paratype (slightly different from ejaculatory apodeme in holotype illustrated in Boucher 2005)) and apex of distal tubule more contiguous with tubule, not appearing as a separate sclerite. However, the unique characteristics that these species share make them distinct within the genus  Cerodontha, suggesting a close evolutionary relationship.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA6A424B669F9D4FBC38856	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA0A424B6A5FE71FBB78D89.text	03EC5B27FFA0A424B6A5FE71FBB78D89.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Japanagromyza Sasakawa 1958	<div><p>Genus  Japanagromyza Sasakawa, 1958</p><p>(Fig. 8)</p><p>Japanagromyza Sasakawa, 1958: 140 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Agromyza duchesneae Sasakawa, 1954 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>A total of 12 female specimens belonging to the genus  Japanagromyza were collected on the Mitaraka massif, representing four morphospecies (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) (Fig. 8 A-D). All these species have a metallic sheen characteristic of the genus. However, most of the Mitaraka  Japanagromyza species ( Japanagromyza MIT-2; J. Mit-3 and J. Mit-4) lack the prsc normally present in this genus. Out of the 35 species of  Japanagromyza recorded in the Neotropical region, (treating  J. iridescens (Frost, 1936) and  J. inaequalis (Malloch, 1914) as two distinct species [Spencer &amp; Stegmaier 1973]), only five species ( J. aldrichi (Frick, 1952);  J. lonchocarpi Boucher, 2006;  J. polygoni Spencer, 1973;  J. desmodivora Spencer, 1966 and  J. tingomariensis Sasakawa, 1992) lack these setae. Unfortunately, without male specimens the identification of the Mitaraka specimens could not be confirmed.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA0A424B6A5FE71FBB78D89	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA0A425B6D0FB32FBB08EEC.text	03EC5B27FFA0A425B6D0FB32FBB08EEC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Liriomyza Mik 1894	<div><p>Genus  Liriomyza Mik, 1894</p><p>Liriomyza Mik, 1894: 284 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Liriomyza urophorina Mik, 1894 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This is a very speciose genus, difficult to identify due to high morphological homogeneity across the species (both externally and in the male genitalia) and the lack of decisive diagnostic features.Most species are very small (often between 1.5-2.5 mm in wing length), usually yellow (frons, part of pleura and scutellum, sometimes legs) and black (mesonotum, part of pleura) in colour, with only some exceptions. For example,  L. nigra Spencer, 1984 from Colombia has a dark frons and dark scutellum. Most  Liriomyza males have a characteristic feature: the stridulatory organ present on the lateral membranous portion of the abdomen. This structure is sometimes pale and difficult to see and may be secondarily lost in a few species. A total of 15 specimens of  Liriomyza were collected on the Mitaraka massif, representing three species. Two ( Liriomyza Mit-2 and  Liriomyza Mit-3) were represented by female specimens only (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021: table 2), and their identity remains doubtful. These two species have two or three posterolateral setae on the mid tibia, a character rarely seen in Neotropical  Liriomyza species. The other species ( Liriomyza Mit-1) represented by nine females and three males represents a new species described below. Three  Liriomyza species were previously known from French Guiana. These are widespread and well-known pest species:  Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard, 1926),  Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess, 1880) and  Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, 1938 .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA0A425B6D0FB32FBB08EEC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA2A427B403F9D4FDA48E0B.text	03EC5B27FFA2A427B403F9D4FDA48E0B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Liriomyza touroulti Boucher 2025	<div><p>Liriomyza touroulti Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Fig 9)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 6DB60EB7-4210-4CF4-84A6-37E8F4F2BFBD</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>Paratypes. Guyane • 1 ♂, 6 ♀; same as for holotype; MNHN •  1♂, 2 ♀; same as for holotype; LEMQ .</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The species name is a patronym in honour of Julien Touroult, the PI of the entomological component of the “Our Planet Reviewed” Mitaraka survey.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species differs from other Neotropical species of  Liriomyza by the combination of the following character states: orbital plate and frons completely yellow; inner vertical bristle and outer vertical bristle on yellow background; thorax subshining black with yellow patch at hind corner; femora yellow, tibia and tarsi slightly darker (especially of mid and hind leg); clypeus pale brown; wing length (male) of 1.5 mm; male genitalia with the distiphallus only slightly longer than the mesophallus.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; frons including orbital plates narrow, approximately 0.15 mm at midpoint; eye bare; lunule small; two well-developed reclinate ors and two well-developed inclinate ori (anterior one at most only slightly shorter than posterior ori); orbital setulae sparse, short and reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small, covered with short but dense white pubescence (Fig. 9A); arista with distinct pubescence; gena slightly deeper at rear end (Fig. 9A), at midpoint about 0.16 × maximum eye height; clypeus with upper margin rounded; small epistoma present; 3 +1 dc; prsc well-developed; acrostichal setulae long, arranged in about 4-5 rows; mid tibia without posterolateral setae; wing length (male, female) 1.5 mm; last section of M 4 0.6 times length of penultimate section. Stridulatory organ present.</p><p>Colour</p><p>Head yellow, except for slight greyish infuscation on the orbital plate; pleura yellow except for mostly brown katepisternum and anepisternum with a small brown patch; mesonotum shiny brown with small yellow patch at hind corner; legs yellow, tibiae and tarsi slightly darker (pale brown); calypter yellow, fringe short and pale brown.</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Phallus small: length of distiphallus combined with mesophallus measuring approximately 0.08 mm; distiphallus (Fig. 9B, arrow a) approximately 1.5 × as long as mesophallus (Fig. 9B, arrow b) and approximately 1.6 × as long as wide (at largest point, Fig. 9B, arrow c); distal end of phallus somewhat claw-like in lateral view (Fig. 9C); ejaculatory apodeme with long, narrow stalk: width of blade at largest point, about 5 × as wide as stalk at midpoint (Fig. 9D); epandrium and surstylus each with one spine (Fig. 9E); spine of surstylus located near midpoint.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Externally, this new species is most similar to  L. sativae Blanchard, 1938, a species widely distributed in the Neotropical region (and elsewhere), and also recorded from French Guiana (EPPO 2022; Martinez &amp; Étienne 2002; Ryckewaert 2003). These two species can be separated from each other by the male genitalia: in  L. sativae, the mesophallus is much shorter than the distiphallus and the ejaculatory apodeme has a shorter stalk and wider blade. Also, the spine on the surstylus is subapical (see Lonsdale 2021). In lateral view, the phallus of  L. touroulti Boucher,  n. sp. is similar to that of  L. geniculata Sasakawa, 1992 from Venezuela (Sasakawa 1992a), but it is quite different in ventral view. Furthermore, the surstylus has two apical spines. Short DNA sequences (356 bp) were obtained from two female paratypes of  L. touroulti Boucher,  n. sp., with the following GenBank accession numbers: OK623731 and OK623719 (Boucher &amp; Savage 2022).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA2A427B403F9D4FDA48E0B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA3A427B425F8B4FBA88FCA.text	03EC5B27FFA3A427B425F8B4FBA88FCA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nemorimyza Frey 1946	<div><p>Genus  Nemorimyza Frey, 1946</p><p>Nemorimyza Frey, 1946: 42 .</p><p>TYPE OF GENUS. —  Agromyza posticata Meigen, 1830 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Nemorimyza, a small genus consisting of five species (excluding the new species described below and excluding  N. xizangensis Chen &amp; Wang, 2008 from China, which was transferred to  Phytobia (von Tschirnhaus 2023), is predominantly found in the Neotropical region, although it is not exclusively limited to this area. The genus is characterized by a small, often silvery, or greyish dusted lunule; body almost completely black with halter at least partially black (except for male  N. posticata (Meigen, 1830) with abdomen conspicuously yellow posteriorly, halter white and fore knee narrowly yellow). Most species have 3+ 1 dc, except  N. posticata with 3 +0 dc (sometimes with an additional smaller pair close to suture). Some species have a well-developed posterolateral seta on the fore tibia. The male genitalia are characterized by a subepandrial sclerite that is broadly fused with each other, with numerous microscopic spines centrally and a pair of strong spine-like processes, directed ventrally (Zlobin 1996b). However, these features are located within the epandrium and can be difficult to observe without damaging surrounding structures. One  Nemorimyza species,  N. maculosa (Malloch, 1913), has previously been reported from French Guiana (Anonymous 2018; Martinez &amp; Étienne 2002; Ryckewaert 2003). A total of five specimens were collected on the Mitaraka massif, representing at least two species (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021; Boucher &amp; Savage 2022). One of them (identified as morphospecies  Nemorimyza Mit- 2 in Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) is known from two female specimens only.  Nemorimyza Mit-1 and  Nemorimyza Mit-2 can only be differentiated by subtle external differences, but DNA barcoding of two female specimens supported the assignment to two different species (Boucher &amp; Savage 2022). In Boucher &amp; Savage 2022 (Table 5),  Nemorimyza Mit-2 and an extra specimen from Guanacaste, Costa Rica, gathered by D. Janzen and W.Hallwachs, were initially grouped together under the same BIN (Barcode Index Number) (BOLD:ADB9391). However, due to the discovery of a new sequence from Costa Rica (PLGCS231-20) that exhibited closer similarity to sequence JCCCY4402-16,  Nemorimyza Mit-2 has now been relocated to a different BIN (BOLD:AEN9883), and the formal description will be delayed until a male becomes available (possibly from the BioAlfa project at Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Janzen &amp; Hallwachs 2019).  Nemorimyza Mit-1 is described below based on a single male specimen. The status of two female specimens identified as  Nemorimyza Mit-1, in Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021 (including one barcoded specimen (Boucher &amp; Savage 2022) is currently uncertain and may represent a third species. Additional studies will be necessary to confirm their status.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA3A427B425F8B4FBA88FCA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFA3A43BB6A7F8F4FED78D29.text	03EC5B27FFA3A43BB6A7F8F4FED78D29.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nemorimyza thanatos Boucher 2025	<div><p>Nemorimyza thanatos Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Figs 10; 11)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4A8C7A60-CBD9-4F32-8BD9-0B1DB9000264</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name comes from the Greek  “thanatos ” which is the personification of Death (better known as the Grim Reaper), referring to the dark coloured body of the species, hooked apical structures of the distiphallus and the large scythe-like projections of the phallus in lateral view.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species can be differentiated from all other species of  Nemorimyza by the combination of the following characters: gena narrow; knob of halter completely brown; 3 + 0 dc including only two well-developed dc; wing length 1.65 mm; fore tibia without posterolateral seta and anterior orbital plate yellow.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile (Fig. 10A); frons narrow, width including orbital plates 0.22 mm at midpoint; orbital plate 0.20 × width of frons at midpoint; lunule small with silvery pubescence; frons and orbital plate mat; two reclinate ors and two ori (both reclinate on one side; anterior ori inclinate on other side); orbital setulae reclinate, in one distinct row; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short white pubescence; arista long (0.48 mm) with short pubescence; gena at midpoint about 0.1 × maximum eye height; clypeus narrow with upper margin rounded; palpus with three long apical bristles. 3 + 0 dc with only two well-developed dc, anterior postsutural dc about half the size of 2nd dc; prsc present; acrostichal setulae arranged in about seven rows; mid tibia with two lateral setae, and one long and 3-4 smaller apical setae; fore tibia without posterolateral seta; wing length 1.65 mm; last section of M 4 approximately 0.8 × length of penultimate section.</p><p>Colour</p><p>Frons mat black with reddish-brown undertone anteriorly; orbital plate brown posteriorly and yellow anteriorly (anterior to lower ori) (Fig. 10B); antenna brown; base of arista yellow; thorax brown with notopleuron and part of postpronotum paler brown; halter with knob completely brown; legs brown; calypter yellow or pale greyish with black margin and fringe; abdomen brown, with tip of abdomen and epandrium paler brownish.</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Phallus with two short, hooked apical processes, visible in ventral view (Figs 10C; 11A), in addition to two large scythe-like projections visible in lateral view (Figs 10D; 11B); hypandrium with narrow arms; ejaculatory apodeme with narrow blade, only slightly expanding distally (Fig. 11C); surstylus elongated and extended ventrally (Fig. 11D); epandrium with a spine posteroventrally (Fig. 11D).</p><p>REMARK</p><p>Nemorimyza thanatos Boucher,  n. sp. is most similar to  N. ranchograndensis (Spencer, 1973) but the latter species is larger (up to 3.0 mm in wing length), has 3+ 1 well-developed dc, longer orbital setae and a seta on the fore tibia (Spencer 1973b; Sasakawa 1992b);. An attempt to barcode the specimen was unsuccessful, resulting in the retrieval of only a short sequence of 156 bp.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFA3A43BB6A7F8F4FED78D29	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFBFA43BB431FB92FBD38B57.text	03EC5B27FFBFA43BB431FB92FBD38B57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytobia Lioy 1864	<div><p>Genus  Phytobia Lioy, 1864</p><p>Phytobia Lioy, 1864: 1313 .</p><p>TYPE SPECIES. —  Agromyza errans Meigen, 1830 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Phytobia species are generally dark coloured in the Nearctic and Palaearctic region, but many species have contrasting yellow coloration in the Neotropical region. Most  Phytobia have 3 +1 well-developed dc, a wing with vein R 4+5 ending closer to the wing tip than M 1+2 or both veins equidistant from wing tip. The frons is usually dark, sometimes paler (reddish), and the lunule is often silvery. The male genitalia usually have a broadly rounded hypandrium, and the surstyli are usually broad, lobate. A few species do not share this combination of characters and were included in a separate group, the  Phytobia unica group (Boucher 2010), discussed below. Five specimens of  Phytobia were collected in Mitaraka, each representing a separate species. Among them,  Phytobia Mit-2 and  Phytobia Mit-3 are known from female specimens only (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021), and their identities could not be confirmed. The other species,  Phytobia Mit-1,  Phytobia Mit-4 and  Phytobia Mit-5 (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) represent new species and are described below. Two of these new species ( P. dalensi Boucher,  n. sp. and  P. corona Boucher,  n. sp.) are part of the  Phytobia unica group, along with four other previously known Neotropical species:  P. unica Spencer, 1973,  P. mentula Sasakawa, 1992,  P. pipinna Sasakawa, 1992 and  P. guatemalensis Sasakawa, 2005 . This species group is characterized by the presence of only two well-developed postsutural dc, in addition to a very small third one in some species, a phallus ending in paired tubules, a well-defined cylindrical mesophallus, a narrow and elongate hypandrium, a C-shaped surstylus covered with short spines, and narrowly connected to the posteroventral margin of the epandrium. Also, the wing venation of the  P. unica group is very similar to that of the subfamily  Agromyzinae Fallén, 1823, with the subcostal vein joining R 1 before reaching the costa (also occurs in other  Phytobia) and the distal margin of R 1 that is expanded near the junction.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFBFA43BB431FB92FBD38B57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFBFA43EB6C4FD73FE3A88F6.text	03EC5B27FFBFA43EB6C4FD73FE3A88F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytobia corona Boucher 2025	<div><p>Phytobia corona Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Figs 12; 13)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 9E680B5E-336B-4E09-90EA-101D54BAB2A7</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name is derived from the Latin  “corona ” (crown), referring to the spinose ring-like sclerite on the distiphallus.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species can be distinguished by its bicolorous frons (black posteriorly and orange anteriorly), and the male genitalia, especially the long distiphallus with a spinose sclerite located a little before midpoint.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; orbital plate 0.14 × width of frons at midpoint; frons width including orbital plates 0.32 mm at midpoint; lunule small; ocellar triangle extended anteriorly to level of anterior ors; two reclinate ors and two ori: upper ori reclinate and lower ori inclinate; orbital setulae reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short pubescence; arista with long pubescence; gena extremely narrow, at midpoint about 0.03 × maximum eye height (Fig. 12B); clypeus narrow, with upper margin rounded; epistoma absent (Fig. 12D); 3 + 0 dc, with only two posterior ones well-developed, and anterior postsutural dc about 0.30 × length of second dc; prsc present; acrostichal setulae numerous, in about 8-9 rows; mid tibia with two posterolateral setae; wing length 2.3 mm; last section of M 4 approximately 0.7 × length of penultimate section; vein R 4+5 ending close to wing tip; distal margin of R 1 expanded near junction (Fig. 12A).</p><p>Colour</p><p>Similar to  P. dalensi Boucher,  n. sp. described below, with following differences: frons mat, bicolorous: black posteriorly at level of ocellar triangle and orange anteriorly (Fig. 12C); orbital plate brownish black to level of upper ori, yellowish below; clypeus black; face yellowish brown; antennae yellow, first flagellomere infuscated with brown (Fig. 12B, D); palpus yellow; mesonotum shiny brown except for posterolateral corner with distinct yellow patch (Fig. 12E, visible on one side due to the collapse of the mesonotum); calypter and calypteral margin yellow; fringe brown; abdomen yellow with dark brown spots medially on tergites 3-6 in addition to lateral brown spots on tergites 5-6 (Fig. 12F).</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Distiphallus separated into two long tubules, which are longer than the hypandrium and phallapodeme (Fig. 13A, B) (distiphallus possibly longer than illustrated considering that the distal end appears truncated in the holotype); tubules straight, without distinct curvature; phallus with a ring-like sclerite armed with teeth (Fig. 13 A-C); ring-like sclerite located slightly below midpoint (Fig. 13A); distal end of phallus (distal to ring-like sclerite) measuring 0.4 mm (possibly longer, see comment above); distal end of phallus (distal to sclerite) about 3 × longer than basal part (arrows, Fig. 13A); mesophallus short, oval, somewhat bean-shaped (Fig. 13A); hypandrium narrow, constricted near midpoint, with distal end bent (Fig. 13B, arrow); ejaculatory apodeme with very short stalk and medium-sized blade (Fig. 13E); surstylus, typical of the  Phytobia unica group (see above) with multiple spines (Fig. 13D).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This species belongs to the  Phytobia unica -group (Boucher 2010) and is morphologically most similar to  P.guatemalensis Sasakawa, 2005 due to its bicolorous frons and the characteristic spinose sclerite on the distiphallus. It differs from  P. guatemalensis by the small yellow patch on the posterolateral corner of the mesonotum (Fig. 12E) (mesonotum described as entirely black in  P. guatemalensis), the presence of two posterolateral setae on the mid tibia (only one in  P. guatemalensis according to original description) and the longer distiphallus with the spinose sclerite located slightly before the midpoint of the distiphallus. The phallus of  P. guatemalensis is shorter and the spinose sclerite is located near the end of distiphallus. This species was listed as morphospecies  Phytobia Mit- 5 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFBFA43EB6C4FD73FE3A88F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFBAA43EB41DFDD3FC4B8CEA.text	03EC5B27FFBAA43EB41DFDD3FC4B8CEA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytobia dalensi Boucher 2025	<div><p>Phytobia dalensi Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Figs 14; 15)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 71404E3D-F260-4C95-BD87-57AF6FDEA619</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/ partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The species name is a patronym in honour of Pierre-Henri Dalens, president of the Société entomologique Antilles-Guyane (SEAG) who participated to phases two and three of the expedition and collected most of the  Agromyzidae of Mitaraka with a 6 m long Malaise trap on one of the savane roches.</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species differs from all other Neotropical species of  Phytobia by the combination of the following characters: wing hyaline; 3+ 0 dc with anterior postsutural dc strongly reduced; frons yellowish brown; anepisternum completely brown; mesonotum mostly black, with posterolateral corner narrowly yellow; femora yellow, with mid and hind femur narrowly brown apically; abdomen mostly yellow with black spots centrally and laterally on hind tergites; male distiphallus consisting of two tubules that are approximately 1.5 × length of mesophallus.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; frons width including orbital plates 0.35 mm at midpoint; orbital plate 0.2 × width of frons at midpoint; lunule small, collapsed inside; ocellar triangle extended anteriorly to level of anterior ors; two reclinate ors and two ori: upper ori reclinate or lateroclinate and lower ori inclinate (Fig. 14B); orbital setulae reclinate, in one row, except for 1-2 extra setulae; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short pubescence; arista long with distinct pubescence; gena narrow, at midpoint about 0.05 × maximum eye height (Fig. 14B); clypeus medium width, with upper margin rounded; small epistoma present (Fig. 14D); 3+ 0 dc with only two posterior ones well-developed (Fig. 14F), anterior postsutural dc reduced, about 0.33 × length of second dc; prsc present; acrostichal setulae numerous, in about 8-9 rows; mid tibia with two posterolateral setae; wing length approximately 2.2 mm (wing slightly bent); last section of M 4 0.6 × length of penultimate section; vein R 4+5 ending close to wing tip; distal margin of R 1 expanded near junction (Fig. 14E).</p><p>Colour</p><p>Frons mat, yellowish-brown (Fig. 14C); orbital plate and ocellar triangle subshining, darker brown except for orbital plate yellowish at level of ori and below; antennae yellowish, first flagellomere slightly infuscated with brown (Figs 14B, D); clypeus and palp yellowish brown; face yellowish (Fig. 14D); mesonotum shiny brown, with the posterolateral corner possibly narrowly yellow (difficult to see due to the collapsed thorax) (Fig. 14F); scutellum brown; postpronotum yellow with small brown spot; notopleuron yellow; other pleura completely brown; fore leg including coxa and trochanter yellow, tarsi slightly darker yellowish brown; mid and hind femora yellow with apex narrowly brown (Fig. 14A); mid coxa brownish; mid and hind tibia and tarsi brown; halter yellow; calypter and margin yellow; fringe brown. Abdomen yellow with dark brown spots medially on tergites 3-6 in addition to lateral brown spots on tergites 5-6 similar to  P. corona Boucher,  n. sp. (Fig. 12F).</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Distiphallus (Fig. 15B, arrow a) separated into two tubules (Fig. 15A) that are approximately 1.5 × longer than mesophallus (Fig. 15B, arrow b); hypandrium without distal apodeme, conspicuously constricted near midpoint (Fig. 15C); surstylus, typical of the  Phytobia unica group (see above), with multiple spines (Fig. 15D); ejaculatory apodeme with short stalk and medium size blade (Fig. 15E).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This new species belongs to the  Phytobia unica group (Boucher 2010) and is externally most similar to  P. mentula Sasakawa, 1992 described from Peru (Sasakawa 1992a). The male phallus of these two species, however, is distinctly different.  Phytobia dalensi Boucher,  n. sp., was previously identified as morphospecies  Phytobia Mit- 4 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFBAA43EB41DFDD3FC4B8CEA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFBAA433B6A0F9D4FE178815.text	03EC5B27FFBAA433B6A0F9D4FE178815.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytobia pluviasilvae Boucher 2025	<div><p>Phytobia pluviasilvae Boucher,  n. sp.</p><p>(Figs 16; 17)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 729A6EFF-6882-42BA-835A-4544F923F80F</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Guyane • ♂;  Mitaraka, near site MIT-A-RBF1, river; 25.III.2015; MT (6 m); leg. Julien Touroult &amp; Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015); sample code: MITARAKA/189, sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015; MNHN.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — This species (from sample 189) was collected from a 6 m Malaise trap installed in tropical lowland rainforest over the Alama River (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021). The specific name is referring to the habitat of the type specimen (“pluvia” for rain; “silva” for forest).</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species differs from all other Neotropical species of  Phytobia by the combination of the following characters: wing hyaline; presutural dc present; abdomen largely yellow; legs all brown; scutellum and prescutellar area yellow; anepisternum mostly brown, with a narrow yellow border dorsally; male phallus with two very long and coiled tubules.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana.</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Male</p><p>Orbital plate not projecting in front of eye in profile; frons width including orbital plates 0.38 mm at midpoint; frons becoming narrower anteriorly; orbital plate 0.17 × width of frons at midpoint; lunule small, wide and low, with silvery pubescence (Fig. 16B); frons and orbital plate mat; ocellar triangle small, not extending beyond anterior ocellus; two (three on one side) reclinate ors and two inclinate ori; orbital setulae reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short white pubescence; arista long with short pubescence; gena narrow, at midpoint about 0.04 × maximum eye height; clypeus narrow, widely open with upper margin rounded; small epistoma present (Fig. 16D); 4+1 dc with only two posterior ones well-developed, all other dc less than half the size of posterior ones; prsc absent; acrostichal setulae numerous, in about 9-10 rows; fore femur with a row of three long ventrolateral setae in addition to a few shorter ones; mid tibia with two posterolateral setae; wing length 2.28 mm in male; last section of M 4 approximately 0.83 times length of penultimate; vein R 4+5 ending very close to wing tip; subcostal vein extending to costa independently from R 1 and distal margin of R 1 straight, not expanded near junction (Fig. 16C).</p><p>A B C D E F</p><p>Colour</p><p>Frons mat black with small reddish spot near lunule; orbital plate mat brown with small yellow patch anteriorly (Fig. 16B); antennae brown; clypeus dark brown, subshining; palpus and face brown. Mesonotum brown except for largely yellow prescutellar area and yellow scutellum (Fig. 16E); brown area of mesonotum separated into two bands laterally (Fig. 16E); postpronotum yellow with large brown spot centrally (Fig.16A); notopleuron yellow; anepisternum mostly brown except for narrowly yellow area dorsally; all other pleura brown; legs brown (Fig. 16A); halter yellow; calypter, margin and fringe brown. All abdominal tergites yellow with brown spots medially and laterally (Fig. 16F).</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>Phallus divided into two very long and coiled tubules (Fig. 17A, B); hypandrium narrow, U-shaped and without apodeme (Fig. 17B); postgonites well-developed; surstylus (Fig. 17B, inset) with a few long hairs and separated from epandrium by suture; ejaculatory apodeme with small blade (Fig. 17C).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Although the narrow, elongated hypandrium is unusual for this genus (broadly rounded in most  Phytobia) and the phallus of this species is most similar to some Neotropical species of  Japanagromyza, this new species belongs to the genus  Phytobia on the basis of wing venation, the shape of the surstyli, the presence of 4+ 1 dc, and the presence of postgonites. This species was identified as morphospecies  Phytobia Mit- 1 in Boucher &amp; Pollet (2021).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFBAA433B6A0F9D4FE178815	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFB7A433B406FEB1FE528DC9.text	03EC5B27FFB7A433B406FEB1FE528DC9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytoliriomyza Hendel 1931	<div><p>Genus  Phytoliriomyza Hendel, 1931</p><p>Phytoliriomyza Hendel, 1931: 203 (as subgenus of  Liriomyza).</p><p>TYPE SPECIES OF SUBGENUS. —  Agromyza perpusilla Meigen, 1830 .</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This genus was originally erected for species having proclinate orbital setulae (in addition to other characters) which easily separate this genus from other similar agromyzid genera, especially  Liriomyza . But the concept of the genus has evolved, now encompassing also species with upright or reclinate orbital setulae and some without orbital setulae. The colour is also variable with some species having the mesonotum and scutellum dark (typically greyish), while others feature a yellow scutellum and sometimes pre-scutellar area, like several  Liriomyza species. However, unlike  Liriomyza, male  Phytoliriomyza do not possess a stridulatory organ. Most  Phytoliriomyza have only three orbital bristles including two ors and one ori (some species, e.g.,  P.grandis (Spencer, 1963) from Brazil have two ors and three ori). The halter is often slightly darkened apically or completely brown and the male genitalia is usually distinctive with conspicuous spines on the surstyli and on the inner margin of epandrium. Only two specimens were collected on the Mitaraka massif (Boucher &amp; Pollet 2021) which proved to belong to  Phytoliriomyza jurgensi Spencer, 1983 originally described from Costa Rica (Spencer 1983) and later found to occur in Guadeloupe and St-Christopher (Étienne &amp; Martinez 2003a, b).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFB7A433B406FEB1FE528DC9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
03EC5B27FFB7A433B5F0FAF5FB058A08.text	03EC5B27FFB7A433B5F0FAF5FB058A08.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Phytoliriomyza jurgensi Spencer 1983	<div><p>Phytoliriomyza jurgensi Spencer, 1983</p><p>(Fig. 18)</p><p>Phytoliriomyza jurgensi Spencer, 1983: 63 . — Martinez &amp; Étienne 2002: 20. — Étienne &amp; Martinez 2003a: 261; b: 95.</p><p>MATERIAL EXAMINED. —   Guyane • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-54.462917&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.2332778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -54.462917/lat 2.2332778)">Mitaraka</a>, sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230, sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN  .</p><p>DIAGNOSIS. — This species can be recognized by its small size (1.2-1.4 mm), yellow frons, yellow anepisternum and notopleuron, sparse acrostichal setulae in two rows, and a first flagellomere with long pubescence.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, St-Christopher, French Guiana (new record).</p><p>HOST. — Unknown.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>According to the original description (Spencer 1983),  P. jurgensi has the first flagellomere and palpus black, and the tibiae and tarsi brownish black. In contrast to this, the Mitaraka specimens are paler, with the first flagellomere and palp yellowish brown in the male and brown in the female, and the tibiae and tarsi dark yellow. The Mitaraka specimens are also slightly smaller with a wing length of 1.2 mm in the male and 1.4 mm in the female (1.4 mm in male in original description) and they have 3 +2 dc (Fig. 18B) (3 +1 dc in original description). Externally,  P. jurgensi is most similar to  P. scotica Spencer, 1962 (Neotropical records are available under  P. pilosella Spencer, 1973 now recognized as a junior synonym of  P. scotica (synonymy by von Tschirnhaus 2023)). However,  P. jurgensi can be distinguished from  P. scotica by a yellow frons (part of frons slightly darker in  P. scotica), a brown or black palpus (yellow in  P. scotica), and a yellowish to greyish scutellum (brown in  P. scotica). Both species have extremely small and weakly sclerotized genitalia, but the distiphallus of  P. jurgensi has a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped distal end (Fig. 18C) and the tubules have a darker and more sclerotized medial section (Fig. 18D). In  P. scotica, the phallus has one pair of very long, coiled tubules.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC5B27FFB7A433B5F0FAF5FB058A08	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher;Pollet, Marc	Marc, Stéphanie Boucher, Pollet, Marc (2025): New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana). Zoosystema 47 (2): 13-42, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf
