Biology:Phytobia
Phytobia | |
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Phytobia lateralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Agromyzidae |
Subfamily: | Phytomyzinae |
Genus: | Phytobia Lioy, 1864 |
Phytobia[1] is a genus of flies in the family Agromyzidae,[2][3] with a worldwide distribution principally in Europe and the Americas.
Description
All known larvae of Phytobia feed on the young xylem within stems of woody plants, creating concealed galleries that may reach considerable lengths (reportedly up to 17 m in P. betulae).[4][5] P. betulae lays its eggs on the bark of new-growth twigs of suitable birch trees and, after hatching, larvae tunnel downwards along the shoot within the differentiating xylem layer, sometimes reaching the base of the tree. Adults are small- to medium-sized flies (approximately 5 mm in the case of P. betulae).[4] Confirmed host plant families for Phytobia species include Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Rosaceae, Salicaceae, Sapindaceae, and Cupressaceae in North America, Europe, and Australia, with Asteraceae also hypothesized to be a host family based on the finding of possible larval sign on the shrub Wedelia calycina in Guadeloupe.[4][5] Larval tunnels mar the appearance of certain woods used commercially, and thus may be of economic importance.[5]
Species
The Catalogue of Life lists:[2][3]
- Phytobia allecta
- Phytobia alocomentula
- Phytobia amelanchieris
- Phytobia aucupariae
- Phytobia betulae
- Phytobia betulivora
- Phytobia bifida
- Phytobia bifistula
- Phytobia bohemica
- Phytobia brincki
- Phytobia californica
- Phytobia calyptrata
- Phytobia cambii
- Phytobia carbonaria
- Phytobia cerasiferae
- Phytobia clypeolata
- Phytobia colorata
- Phytobia confessa
- Phytobia correntosana
- Phytobia coylesi
- Phytobia diversata
- Phytobia ecuadorensis
- Phytobia errans
- Phytobia fausta
- Phytobia flavohumeralis
- Phytobia flavosquamata
- Phytobia frutescens
- Phytobia furcata
- Phytobia fusca
- Phytobia gigas
- Phytobia grandissima
- Phytobia guatemalensis
- Phytobia harai
- Phytobia hirticula
- Phytobia incerta
- Phytobia indecora
- Phytobia insulana
- Phytobia inusitata
- Phytobia ipeii
- Phytobia iraeos
- Phytobia iridis
- Phytobia kallima
- Phytobia kuhlmanni
- Phytobia lanei
- Phytobia lateralis
- Phytobia liepae
- Phytobia lineata
- Phytobia longipes
- Phytobia lunulata
- Phytobia luzonensis
- Phytobia maai
- Phytobia macalpinei
- Phytobia magna
- Phytobia malabarensis
- Phytobia mallochi
- Phytobia manifesta
- Phytobia matura
- Phytobia mentula
- Phytobia millarae
- Phytobia monsonensis
- Phytobia morio
- Phytobia nigeriensis
- Phytobia nigrita
- Phytobia optabilis
- Phytobia pallida
- Phytobia pansa
- Phytobia peruensis
- Phytobia pipinna
- Phytobia powelli
- Phytobia prolata
- Phytobia propincua
- Phytobia pruinosa
- Phytobia pruni
- Phytobia prunivora
- Phytobia pseudobetulivora
- Phytobia rabelloi
- Phytobia ruandensis
- Phytobia sasakawai
- Phytobia semibifurcata
- Phytobia seticopia
- Phytobia setitibialis
- Phytobia setosa
- Phytobia shizukoae
- Phytobia spinulosa
- Phytobia subdiversata
- Phytobia terminalis
- Phytobia triplicis
- Phytobia unica
- Phytobia waltoni
- Phytobia vanduzeei
- Phytobia vilkamaai
- Phytobia vindhyaensis
- Phytobia xanthophora
- Phytobia yalomensis
References
- ↑ Lioy, P (1864) I ditteri distribuite secondo un nuovo metodo di classificazione naturale. Atti dell'I. R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Serie 3 9(2): 1311-1352.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roskov Y.; Kunze T. (2014). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist.". in Didžiulis V.. Species 2000: Reading, UK.. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/phytobia/match/1. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dyntaxa Phytobia
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lieutier, François; Day, Keith R.; Battisti, Andrea; Grégoire, Jean-Claude; Evans, Hugh F. (2007). Bark and Wood Boring Insects in Living Trees in Europe, a Synthesis. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 534–537. ISBN 978-1-4020-2241-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=XpgMBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA534.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues de; Couri, Márcia Souto (2017-12-18). "Phytobia (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Brazil: new species, new record and a key to the Neotropical species" (in en). Zoologia 34: 1–25. doi:10.3897/zoologia.34.e12308. ISSN 1984-4689. https://zenodo.org/record/1140121/files/Zoologia_article_12308.pdf.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4283762 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobia.
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