Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015

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 : 286

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15434982
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scientific name	Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito
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Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito View in CoL

( Figs. 27–30 View FIGURES 27-30 , 55 View FIGURE 55 )

Japanagromyza sasakawai Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015: 494 View in CoL .

Specimens examined. Costa Rica. Prov. San José. Moravia. Zurquí de Moravia , North pasture. 1600m. 5–12 JUL 2013. Proyecto ZADBI . Malaise trap #3, ZADBI-911. -84:00:57 10:02:58 #107159. INB0004408017 (1M: MNCR) ; Costa Rica. Prov. San José. Moravia. Zurquí de Moravia , Tower path. 1600m. 5–12 JUL 2013. Proyecto ZADBI . Malaise trap #1, ZADBI-909. -84:00:57 10:02:58 #107157. INB0004448985 (1F: MNCR) .

Comments. This species was recently described from the State of Pará, in Brazil. The Zurquí specimens agree externally with the original description of the species. J. sasakawai is a black species without any metallic reflection. The male genitalia appear to show slight variation including a few more spines on the surstyli ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 27-30 ) (apparently 7 not 5) and a slightly bent apex of distiphallus ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 27-30 ). The cerci are very large ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 27-30 , arrow) as originally described. This species was identified as morphospecies (J. ZADBI-1) in Borkent et al. 2018.

Host plant. Terminalia catappa L. ( Combretaceae ) (Monteiro, Carvalho-Filho & Esposito, 2015).

Distribution. Brazil, Costa Rica * ( Fig. 55 View FIGURE 55 ).