Ophiomyia aeneonitens (Strobl, 1873)

Guglya, Yu. A., 2014, Mining Flies Of The Genus Ophiomyia (Diptera, Agromyzidae) Of Eastern Ukraine And Adjacent Territories: Review Of The Species Without A Fasciculus, Vestnik Zoologii (Vestn. Zool.) 48 (1), pp. 51-66 : 53-54

Ophiomyia aeneonitens (Strobl, 1873) (fig. 5–11)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Near Krasnoye, chalk hills, 23.05.2012, 5 ♂, 1 ♀.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n. Head (fig. 5, 6, 9). Orbit slightly projected above eye in profile; 2 orb s, 2 fr s; frorb sta reclinate, short, sparse; facial bulb 0.8× as wide as pedicel, slightly widening ventrally, with wide, shallow furrow at level of antennal base; lunule rounded; vibrissa present in both sexes; maximal height of eye 12.5 × maximal height of gena; ocellar triangle reaching level of 1st orb s; 1st flagellomere rounded.

Wing. Costa reaching just beyond apex of R 4+5; calypter and fringe beige in male, white in female; margin beige. Wing veins white with costal and radial veins beige basally and darker apically. Crossvein r-m lacking. Wing white. Length of wing 1.7 mm.

Mesonotum black, shining (anterior view); 2 dc; ac 2 nearest to sctsctl sut and 6 at level of 2nd dc; halter and legs black.

Male genitalia (fig. 7, 8). Phallus 0.33 mm long, its shape atypical for Ophiomyia , having a short, wide, H-shaped basiphallus, a wide endophallus that is strongly projected above the distal margin of the distiphallus and reaching the distal margins of the basiphallus, and the proximal parts of the distiphallus are quite wide with the apex narrow and strongly tapered.

Рис. 12–17. O. beckeri (Hendel) : 12, 13 — голова самца; 14 — фаллюс, латеральный вид; 15 — голова самки; 16 — левая лопасть восьмого стернита; 17 — сперматека. Масштабная линейка 0,1 мм.

Female terminalia (fig. 10, 11). Both spermathecae equal, spherical, with narrow, subcylindrical, collar-like base. Proximal and ventral margins of egg guide with minute, posteriorly directed teeth. Membrane of medial margin with several sparse dark scales.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Austria ( Hendel, 1931), Tunisia ( Spencer, 1964), Ukraine ( Guglya, 2012).