Phytoliriomyza pteridii Spencer, 1973

Doukale Daief, Mourad, von Tschirnhaus, Michael & Kettani, Kawtar, 2025, New records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from Morocco, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 81-97 : 81-97

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.141900

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:57CCF242-9E56-4623-A6A1-B9D04706C71D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976058

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CA05DC74-6602-53A2-A722-96DFE61EE43B

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scientific name

Phytoliriomyza pteridii Spencer, 1973
status

 

Phytoliriomyza pteridii Spencer, 1973 View in CoL

Material examined.

Morocco. • 1 ♂; Rif, Fahs-Anjra, Rmel ; 27 Feb. 2020; M. Nourti leg.; sweep net; LESCB -R 20/36 .

Distribution.

The species is known from Andorra, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. First record from Morocco.

Habitat.

It was collected at 372 m in a scrubland with rocky soil of a clay-calcareous habitat crossed by a small stream and bordered by vegetation mainly composed of Pistacia lentiscus , Carlina racemosa , Conyza canadensis , Erica arborea , and Cistus monspeliensis . On a nearby field, fruit trees such as Olea europaea and Ficus carica were growing.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Agromyzidae

SubFamily

Phytomyzinae

Genus

Phytoliriomyza