Description and biology of two new species of Neotropical Liriomyza Mik (Diptera, Agromyzidae), mining leaves of Bocconia (Papaveraceae)

Stéphanie Boucher; Kenji Nishida

doi:10.3897/zookeys.369.6168

Description and biology of two new species of Neotropical Liriomyza Mik (Diptera, Agromyzidae), mining leaves of Bocconia (Papaveraceae)

Zookeys. 2014 Jan 13:(369):79-97. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.369.6168. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Stéphanie Boucher¹, Kenji Nishida²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3V9, Canada.
² Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060 San José, Costa Rica.

Abstract

Liriomyza mystica Boucher & Nishida, sp. n., and Liriomyza prompta Boucher & Nishida, sp. n. are described from Costa Rica. Both species were reared from leaves of Bocconia frutescens L. (Papaveraceae). The latter species was also reared from B. arborea S. Watson. Larvae of L. mystica mine primary veins of large, relatively old, mature leaves, and L. prompta mine blades of small to large, mature leaves. These represent the first record of agromyzids feeding on Bocconia. Biological information is also given and illustrated.

Keywords: Biocontrol of weeds; Bocconia arborea; Bocconia frutescens; Hawai`i; Liriomyza mystica; Liriomyza prompta; Neotropical; Tree poppy; leaf miner; parasitoid wasps; systematics; taxonomy.