2014•Journal of Threatened TaxaOpen access

Vegetable leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae) and their plant hosts in Bangladesh

Santosh Mazumdar, Badrul Amin Bhuiya

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Most leafminer flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) are serious polyphytophagous insect pests of vegetables. In the present communication an account of four species of agromyzid flies, viz., Liriomyza chinensis (Kato), L. sativae Blanchard, Melanagromyza obtusa Malloch and Ophiomyia phaseoli (Tryon) is provided. Of these, L. chinensis is new to Bangladesh fauna. All these agromyzids were reared from 17 economic vegetable host plants in Bangladesh.

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Key concepts: Agromyzidae, Biology, Fauna, Host (biology), Insect, Botany, Larva, Horticulture