Calycomyza hyptidis Spencer, 1966

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 : 162

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scientific name	Calycomyza hyptidis Spencer, 1966
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Calycomyza hyptidis Spencer, 1966 View in CoL

Calycomyza hyptidis Spencer, 1966: 66 View in CoL ; Spencer & Stegmaier, 1973: 74; Esposito, 1994: 114; Sousa & Couri, 2013: 211.

Diagnosis. Wing length 1.8–2.1 mm. Fronto-orbital yellowish, faintly darkened to upper fronto-orbital seta; face greyish in upper half, yellow below; pedicel black; leg brown, with apex of femur and base of tibia yellow in the fore leg; calypter greyish with margin black, fringe black. Aedeagus (Fig. 177 and 178 in Spencer & Stegmaier, 1973): basiphallus moderately sclerotized, with a long extension distally; mesophallus wide basally, about same length as distiphallus; distiphallus strongly sclerotized, forming two tubes projecting upward.

Host-plants. Lamiaceae— Hyptis pectinate L., Hyptis capitate Jacq. , Hyptis mutabilis (Rich.) ; Marsypianthes chamaedrys (Vahl.) Kuntze , Ocimum basilicum L., Salvia sp.

Distribution. Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, USA, Venezuela.

Material examined. BRAZIL, Pará state, Belém: Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia ( UFRA), 1º27′13.8″S, 48º26′43.8″W, 30-XII-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 30-XII-1993, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (2 ♀) GoogleMaps ; same location, 01-II-1994, M.C. Es- posito [collector], ex leaf of Marsypianthes chamaedrys (♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 01-II-1994, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Hyptis mutabilis (2 ♀) GoogleMaps ; Parque Zoobotânico do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi ( MPEG), 1º27′09.9″S, 48º28′35.6″W, 23-IX-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Marsypianthes chamaedrys (3 ♂) GoogleMaps ; same location, 23-IX-1992, M.C. Esposito [collector], ex leaf of Marsypianthes chamaedrys (8 ♀) GoogleMaps .

Comments. Calycomyza hyptidis is an oligophagous species, associated with several Lamiaceae genera. Larvae form irregular , star-shaped mines, with frass deposited in the center. Adults can be easily differentiated from other species of this genus by the characteristic shape of the aedeagus.