Calycomyza lantanae Frick, 1956

Monteiro, Nilton Juvencio Santiago, Barbosa, Rodrigo Rendeiro & Esposito, Maria Cristina, 2019, Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) in the state of Pará: new species and new records in Brazil, Zootaxa 4624 (2), pp. 151-182 : 166-167

Calycomyza lantanae Frick, 1956

Phytobia (Calycomyza) lantanae Frick, 1956: 345 ; 1959: 391; Spencer, 1963: 346.

Calycomyza lantanae, Spencer & Stegmaier, 1973: 78 .

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.5–2 mm. Fronto-orbital plate yellowish; pedicel partially yellowish; legs brown, with apex of femur and base of tibia yellow in fore leg; calypter yellowish, fringe white. Aedeagus (Fig. 189 and 190 in Spencer & Stegmaier 1973): basiphallus slightly sclerotized, forming two extensions distally; mesophallus elongated, wide basally; distiphallus short and sclerotized, forming two short tubules covered by one pair of plates.

Host-plants. Verbenaceae— Duranta sp.; Lantana camara L.; Lippia alba (Mill.) ; Lippia micromera Schauer ; Verbena litoralis Kunth.

Distribution. Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint-Martin, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela.

Material examined. BRAZIL, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia ( UFRA), 1º27′12.2″S, 48º26′12.3″W, 19-II-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Lippia alba (9 ♂) ; same location, 19- II-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Lippia alba (9 ♀) ; same location, 02-II-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Lantana camara L. (3 ♂) ; same location, 02-II-2015, N. Monteiro [collector], ex leaf of Lantana camara L. (3 ♀) .

Comments. Calycomyza lantanae has a wide distribution, with records of this species across the New World ( Benavent-Corai et al. 2005). Larvae of this species form blotches on the surface of the leaves of host-plants. Calycomyza lantanae is associated with several Verbenaceae species, many of which belong to the genera Duranta L., Lippia L., Lantana L., and Verbena L.