Agromyza megalopsis Hering, 1933

Dawah, Hassan A. & Deeming, John C., 2025, An overview of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia with additional world distributional data, Zootaxa 5583 (1), pp. 1-38 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14797471
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scientific name	Agromyza megalopsis Hering, 1933
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Agromyza megalopsis Hering, 1933 View in CoL

Agromyza megalopsis Hering, 1933:37 View in CoL .

Distribution. This species was described from Germany and recorded from Saudi Arabia by Spencer (1973a), where it was attacking wheat. It was further recorded from the Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Corfu, Greece (Crete), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Morocco, Poland, Rhodes, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and the former Yugoslavia ( Černý et al. 2020). Deeming (2006) reviewed the biology of this species and described the immature stages.

Hosts remark. It attacks barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) ( Poaceae ) ( Al-Ali 1977; Benavent-Corai et al. (2005) and possibly rye ( Secale cereale L.) ( Poaceae ) ( Spencer 1973a; Lonsdale et al. 2023).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Agromyzidae
Genus	Agromyza