Phytomyza (Phytomyza) horticola
Creators: name: Dawah, Hassan A.
name: Deeming, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Phytomyza
Phytomyza horticola

description: Phytomyza (Phytomyza) horticola (Goureau, 1851)
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Phytomyza horticola Goureau, 1851: 148.
Material examined. SAUDI ARABIA: 1♂, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (ENRC); 1♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub (Abha Farm Centre), 14.iv.2001, H.A. Dawah (ENRC); 1♂, same data but, 3–24.vii.2013 (ENRC); 6♂, Asir, Al-Souda, Bani Mazen; 1–25.v.2013, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 2♂, same data but 25.ii.–1.v.2013 (NMWC); 1♂, Asir, Tahama, Tanoma, Al-Bekra village, 3.ii.2003, sweeping, H.A. Dawah (NMWC); 1♂, same data but, 27.iii.2003 (ENRC). EGYPT: 1♂, Giza, Al Aliat, 1.iii.2003, ex Trifolium alexandricum L., S.A. El-Serwy (NMWC); 1♂, same data but iii.2003, Sonchus oleraceus L. (NMWC); 1♂, same data but 2.iii.2003, Bidens pilosa L. (NMWC): HUNGARY: 1♂, Budapest, Gellért, 16–24.viii.1986, J.C. Deeming (NMWC). IRAN: 2♂, Shosh, iii. 1999, “weeds and Cabbage”, F. Kalantar (NMWC). MADEIRA: 1♂, Casas do Arieiro, 1981, M. Jones (NMWC). MALTA: 1♂, Fiddien, 5.v.2002, B. Merz (NMWC). PHILIPPINES: 2♂, Benguet, La Trinidad, 22.xii.1996, B. Layabyab (NMWC). UAE: 3♂, 1♀, Fujairah, Jebel Yibir, 27.iii.2007, F. Menzel & A Stark (NMWC); 1♂, Al Ain, Al-Ajban, 12–19.vi.2006, Malaise trap, A. van Harten (NMWC); 2♂, 1♀, Ras Al Khaimah, Khor al-Khwair, 22.ii–1.iii.2007, light trap, A. van Harten (NMWC); 3♂, same data but 1–8.iii.2007 (NMWC); 1♂, Fujairah, Hajar Mountains, Wadi Maidaq, 4–15.ii.2006, water trap, A. van Harten (NMWC); 1♂, same data but Malaise trap, 26.xii.2006 – 20.ii.2007 (NMWC); 1♂, same data but 2–16.ii.2006, light trap (NMWC); 1♂, 1♀, N. of Ajman, 15–16.iii.2009, water trap, C. Schmid-Egger (NMWC). YEMEN: 6♂, 5♀, Sana’a, mining Solanum nigrum L., 21.xi.1998, A. van Harten (NMWC); 1♂, Sana’a, 15.vi.1999, light trap, A. van Harten (NMWC); 2♂, same data but vi.1999 (NMWC); 5♂, 3♀, same data but mining Chenopodium L. (Amaranthaceae), 1.1993 (NMWC).
Distribution. Previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Al-Ahmadi & Salem (1999). New for the fauna of UAE. It was described from France and was further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe: Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgystan, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom: Oriental Region; China, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukus), Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam (Kahanpää 2014; Spencer 1973b; Černý & von Tschirnhaus 2014; Černý et al. 2018; Černý et al. 2020; Lonsdale et al. 2023).
Host remarks. This common and polyphagous species has been recorded as a leaf-miner of 60 families and some 230 genera of plants on which it develops, its favourite hosts appearing to be Asteraceae, Brassicaceae and Fabaceae (Spencer 1973a: 229–233, 1990; Benavent-Corai et al. 2005). The taxonomy, biology, distribution, host plants, control, damage caused and parasitoids attacking this species is given in 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 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797538