Liriomyza huidobrensis
Creators: name: Dawah, Hassan A.
name: Deeming, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Liriomyza
Liriomyza huidobrensis

description: Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard, 1926)
(Fig. 23)
Agromyza huidobrensis Blanchard, 1926: 10.
Material examined. SAUDI ARABIA: Numerous specimens, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub (Abha Farm Centre), swept from tomatoes, 14.iv.2001, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♂, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (ENRC). GREECE: 1♂, 3♀, Crete, Nomos, Lasithi, Lasithi Plateau, 2km, W. Pinakiano, 15.x.1997, swept from seedling wheat, J.C. Deeming & M.R. Wilson (NMWC). LEBANON: 1♂, Nahe el-Jawz, North Lebanon, Boqsmaiya, 250m, 1.vi.2001, J.C. Deeming (NMWC); 1♀, Nahr El-Bared 20 km N. E.of Tripoli, 2.vi.2001, J.C. Deeming (NMWC). MALTA: 2♀, Ghemmieri, 4.vi.1993, on Lycopersicum esculentum Miller, D. Dangria & M.J. Ebejer (NMWC); numerous ♂ & ♀, Maghtab, 10.vi.1994, on cucumber, D. Carvava (NMWC). TURKEY: 1♂, 3♀, Izmir, Bornova, 13.iv.1994, on cucumber green house, H.S. Cívelek (NMWC); 1♂, Izmir, Torbay, 25.xii.1994, abundant on Chrysanthemum L. green house, H.S. Cívelek (NMWC). YEMEN: 1♀, Al-Kowd, viii.2000, light trap, A. van Harten & S. Al-Haruri (NMWC). VENEZUELA: 2♂, 3♀, Savanna, Liara, 15.vii.1985, Mine potato, K.A. Spencer (NMWC).
Distribution. Previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Deeming, 2002: 120). It was described from Argentina. It has been recorded from the Afrotropical Region; Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Palaearctic Region; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey: Oriental Region; Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam: Nearctic Region; Canada: Australasian Region; Australia: Neotropical Region; Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (Dawah & Deeming 2002; Deeming 2006; Maharjan et al. 2014; Černý et al. 2018; Lonsdale et al. 2023).
Host remarks. This is a highly polyphagous species of significant economic importance and is currently considered as one of the World’s most destructive agromyzid pests (Spencer 1973a; Papp & Černý 2017; Lonsdale et al. 2023). It has become invasive and has spread to Europe, Middle East, Asia, with its cosmopolitan distribution due to human mediated dispersal (Scheffer et al. 2001; He et al. 2002). The best observation of all aspects of L. huidobrensis is in Weintraub et al. (2017) and Papp & Černý (2017: 145). Much further information on the taxonomy, biology, distribution, host plants, control, damage caused and parasitoids attacking this species is given by Lonsdale et al. (2023).
description: Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A. & Deeming, John C., 2025, An overview of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia with additional world distributional data, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 5583 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797538