Calycomyza meridiana (Hendel)

Boucher, Stéphanie, Borkent, Art & Brown, Brian V., 2025, The leaf-miner flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) of Costa Rican cloud forests, Zootaxa 5633 (2), pp. 251-287 : 285

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.3
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scientific name	Calycomyza meridiana (Hendel)
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Calycomyza meridiana (Hendel) View in CoL

( Figs. 20–24 View FIGURES 20-24 )

Agromyza meridionalis Malloch, 1914 .

Agromyza meridiana Hendel, 1923: 123 , nomen novum for Agromyza meridionalis Malloch , preoccupied by Agromyza meridionalis Strobl, 1900 .

Phytobia (Calycomyza) meridiana (Hendel) , Frick 1952: 395; Spencer 1963: 348.

Calycomyza meridiana (Hendel) , Spencer 1966: 146; 1967: 9; 1973a:153; 1973b: 46; 1983: 60; Spencer & Stegmaier 1973: 185; Sasakawa 1992b: 15; Sasakawa 1992c: 823; Sasakawa 2005: 158; Martinez & Étienne 2002: 30; Korytkowski 2014: 28.

Specimens examined. Costa Rica. Prov. Puntarenas. Coto Brus. Z.P. Las Tablas. Est Biol Las Alturas. 1500-1600m. 7-14 ENE 2013. Proyecto ZADBI . Malaise trap, ZADBI-545. -82:50:04 08:57:07 #106216. INB0004450328 (1M: MNCR) ; Costa Rica. Prov. San José. Moravia. Zurquí de Moravia , Tower path. 1600m. 16-23 AGO 2013. Proyecto ZADBI . Malaise trap #1, ZADBI-1092. -84:00:57 10:02:58 #107693. INB0004447715 (1F: MNCR) .

Comments. This species was originally described from Costa Rica and later found in many Neotropical countries. Its yellow antennae ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 20-24 ) differentiate this species from most other Neotropical Calycomyza , except C. punctata Sasakawa (1992d) from Peru, but this later species has completely yellow fronto-orbital plate (black in C. meridiana ). Spencer (1963) mentioned that the notopleural area of C. meridiana appears brownish, but later described as being yellow (Spencer 1973b; Sasakawa 2005), as it is in the specimens examined ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 20-24 ). The ejaculatory apodeme of this species was never illustrated before. It has a short and wide stalk with the blade only slightly wider than its base ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 20-24 ).

Host plant. Unknown.

Distribution. Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela.