Agromyza aristata
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Agromyzidae
- Genus: Agromyza
- Species: Agromyza aristata
Visual Description
Agromyza aristata, commonly known as the elm agromyzid leafminer, is a small fly. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult fly exhibits a dark, typically black or dark-brown body coloration.[1] The wings are generally clear and membranous, characteristic of many dipterans.[1]
Life History and Ecology
Agromyza aristata (formerly known as Agromyza ulmi) is a serpentine leaf-mining fly that infests Ulmus (elm) species.[2] It has one generation per year.[2]
Adults emerge in April and lay eggs in newly expanding leaves, usually near the leaf margin.[2] The larvae mine the leaves, creating a narrow, pale-green linear track that often follows a lateral vein and then the mid-vein.[2] As the larvae develop through three instars, the mine widens, with the final instar producing a brownish blotch mine.[2] Mature larvae exit the mine through a semicircular slit in mid- to late-May and pupate in the soil.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Agromyzidae / Agromyza / aristata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jennie Condra; Cristina Brady; Daniel Potter. Resistance of Landscape-Suitable Elms to Japanese Beetle, Gall Aphids, and Leaf Miners, with Notes on Life History of Orchestes alni and Agromyza aristata in Kentucky. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. 2010. https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2010.014.