Amauromyza (Amauromyza) carlinae
Creators: name: Guglya, Yuliia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Amauromyza
Amauromyza carlinae

description: Amauromyza (Amauromyza) carlinae (Hering)   
(Figs. 45–48, 349–354)  
 Material examined: Ukraine: Poltava Region: near Luchky, 48°57’N, 34°09’E, 14.vii.2016, Yu. Guglya, ex Echinops sphaerocephalus (1♂). Kharkiv Region: near Petrivske, 49°10’N, 36°58’E, 14–15.vii.2020, Yu. Guglya, ex Echinops sphaerocephalus (2♂ 3♀).   
 Hosts. Asteraceae: Carlina L., Cirsium Mill. (Benavent-Corai et al. 2005). Echinops sphaerocephalus L.—a newly recorded host plant.   
 Mine. (Fig. 45) Several (up to eight) larvae together form one large whitish-brown blotch mine. Pupation takes place outside the mine.   
 Puparium. (Figs. 46–48) Reddish-brown, glossy, 2.5 mm long, with deep segmentation; surface quite smooth except for wide black spine bands. Posterior spiracles set on stout conical protuberances entirely strongly separate; orange, with five hook-like bulbs set in a circular configuration: three (smaller) located dorsally and two (larger) ventrally. Anal plate distinctly protruding above the surface of the puparium viewed from the side and directed ventrally.   
 Cephalopharyngeal skeleton. (Fig. 349) Right mouthhook much larger than the left, both with ventro-anterior portion distinctly abducted. The right mouthhook bears two sharp accessory teeth and the left hook bears one tooth. Parastomal bar short, curved dorso-anteriorly. Intermediate sclerite wide and short, 0.8× as long as maximum height of left mouthhook. The mouthhook, intermediate sclerite and dorso-anterior portion of the pharyngeal sclerite are strongly sclerotized, posterior half of the dorsal cornu and the ventral cornu much less so. The ventral cornu bears a small “closed” window. Indentation index 83.   
 Female head. (Figs. 350, 351) Brown, with antenna and face black; orbit not projecting above eye in profile; 2 orb s, 4 fr s; lunule low, narrow reaching the level of the anterior fr s; pped small, rounded; gena medially 0.15× as high as maximum height of eye.   
 Female genitalia. (Figs. 352–354) Capsule of spermatheca relatively small, 0.15× as high as height of anterior part of oviscape. Proctiger relatively wide, 2.62× as long as maximum width; cylindrical in posterior half narrowing dramatically and bearing an X-shaped well sclerotized appendage anteriorly. Surface of the posterior half covered with numerous fine spines. Posterior margin of proctiger flattened; cercus relatively wide and acute apically. Spermathecae unequal in size, dark brown, torus-shaped, without basal collar. Capsule of spermatheca 0.47× as high as maximum width. Spermathecal duct weakly sclerotized.   
 Distribution. Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia (Papp & Černý 2016). Ukraine (first record).
description: Published as part of Guglya, Yuliia, 2021, Rearing mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from host plants as an instrument for associating females with males, with the description of seven new species, pp. 1-158 in Zootaxa 5014 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5014.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5158589