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Phytobia cerasiferae (Kangas, 1955) Dendromyza cerasiferae Kangas, 1955: 165. Phytobia cerasiferae (Kangas, 1955) Spencer, 1971: 251. Material seen. RUSSIA: Leningrad Prov., 1 female, Luga Distr., Yashchera, 0 9.07. 1970 (leg. Stackelberg). Distribution. Czech Republic, Finland, France (Corsica), Germany, Great Britain. New to Russia (North European Territory)., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on pages 63-64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Kangas, E. (1955) Dendromyza cerasiferae n. sp. (Dipt., Agromyzidae) from England. Annales entomologici Fennici, 21 (4), 165 - 170.","Spencer, K. A. (1971) Notes on European Agromyzidae (Dipt.) 3. Beitrag fur Entomologie, 21 (3 / 6), 249 - 265."]}

Phytobia pseudobetulivora Zlobin, sp.n. (Figs 1���3) Female. Frons parallel-sides, as long as broad at level of anterior ocellus, twice width of eye, distinctly projecting above eye margin in profile, increasingly so towards antennal bases. Frontal plate ill differentiated. Frontal vitta broad, with a few fine hairs along front margin above upper margin of lunule. Lunule large, semicircular, rounded above. 1 strong reclinate ors on right side and 2 on left side. 6 long, incurved ori. Orbital hairs in 2 irregular rows, predominantly reclinate. Third antennal segment small, slightly longer than broad, rounded, microscopically pilose. Arista short, 2 / 3 vertical height of eye, only faintly pubescent, swollen at base. Eye large, bare, oval, slightly slanting. Facial keel narrow, slightly widening below. Mouth margin broadly rounded. Epistoma moderately broad, not extending upwards (Figs1, 2). Cheek forming narrow ring below eye. Jowls deepest at rear, about 1 / 3 vertical height of eye. Peristomal margin almost straight, bearing 4���5 setulae. Vibrissa well developed. Palps short, moderately swollen at apex, with a pair of setae apically. Mesonotum with 3-4 + 1 dc, greatly decreasing in size, first dc twice longer than fourth one. acr numerous, in 11���12 irregular rows. prsc well developed, about a half length of 1. dc. 1 strong ia, interalars setulae numerous, dense. ipa about twice shorter than opa. Basal scutellars as long as apical ones. Humerus with 1 long h, accompanying 1���2 setae which are about twice shorter than humeral bristle. Mid tibiae with 1���2 pd. Wing tip midway between veins R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 (Fig. 3). Costa strongly extending to vein M 1 + 2. Costal sections in proportion of 4.3: 1: 1. First cross-vein near midpoint of discal cell. Second cross-vein oblique. Last section of vein M 3 + 4 1.5 times longer than penultimate. Wing length 4.3 mm. Ovipositor sheath about 1.5 times longer than 6 th tergite. Body largely brownish black. Hind margin of eye blackish brown. Frons, including orbits, brownish above level of lower ors, reddish-orange below. Lunule white-grey pruinose. Antennae yellowish, third antennal segment above brownish tinged; arista brownish. Cheeks and jowls predominantly yellowish. Face brown. Palps yellowish brown. Thorax dark brown, mesonotum grayish dusted. Legs entirely blackish-brown. Abdomen brownish black, moderately shining. Ovipositor sheath deep black, slightly shining. Wing hyaline, veins light brown. Halter yellow. Squamae whitish, margin and fringe light brownish. Male unknown. Host plant unknown. Distribution. Tajikistan. Type. Holotype, female, Tajikistan, Gissar ridge, valley of Varzob river, Kondara ravine, 1100 m, 24.06. 1937 (leg. Gussakovsky). Diagnosis. Large size, largely reddish orange frons, moderately broad epistoma and long last section of vein M 3 + 4 are distinctive combination of characters of the new species in the Palaearctic fauna. There are some Nearctic Phytobia species [amelanchieris (Green), betulivora Spencer, pruinosa (Coquillett), setosa (Loew)] having at least partly light colored frons. In these species the shape of distiphallus is enough uniform. The distiphallus consists of a pair of long, slender, entirely separated from each other tubules. I propose to call these species as setosa -group after the oldest name. The new species very closely resembles Holarctic Phytobia betulivora Spencer (1969) which larva feeds on Betula nigra. Originally this species was described from the USA and Canada. Recently two males of P. betulivora were recorded from the Czech Republic (Č erny, 2001; Č erny, V��la, Bart��k, 2001). The unique distinctive external character of P. b e t u l i v o r a is conspicuous epistoma, extending upwards almost to base of antennae. Also one female reared ex Fraxinus from Ottawa resembles P. betulivora in the orange color of the frons, antennae and palps but the face and legs are black and the epistoma lacks the upwards extension (Spencer, 1969: 105) but until now its species identity remains uncertain. Almost certainly that P. pseudobetulivora. belongs to the setosa -group and its distiphallus of the same type. Despite of the structure of male genitalia is not known I believe that P. betulivora Spencer and P. pseudobetulivora sp.n. are represent the separate species because the shape of epistoma is not subject of significant individual variation or sexual dimorphism., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on pages 61-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Spencer, K. A. (1969) The Agromyzidae of Canada and Alaska. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 64, 1 - 311."]}

Dizygomyza (Dendromyza) errans (Meigen) Hendel, 1931: 19, 26��� 28., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Hendel, F. (1931 - 36) Agromyzidae. 59. Die Fliegen der palaarktischen Region. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), 6 (2), 1 - 570."]}

Phytobia cambii (Hendel, 1931) Dizygomyza (Dendromyza) cambii Hendel, 1931: 24. Material seen. RUSSIA: Murmansk Prov., 1 male, Monchegorsk, 20.07. 1995 (leg. Kozlov); Leningrad Prov., 1 female, Luga Distr., Jashchera, 0 7.06. 1966 (leg. Stackelberg); Smolensk Prov., 1 female, "Smolenskoe poozer'e' National Park, 0 4.06. 1992 (leg. Zlobin); Voronezh Prov., 1 female, Ternovskiy Distr, Savalsk forest, 0 2.06. 1953 (leg. Stark); Irkutsk Prov., 1 female, Baikal Lake, mouth of Khara-Murin river, 10.07. 1984 (leg. Zlobin). Distribution. Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain (Scotland), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden. New to Russia (North and Central European Territories, East Siberia). Remarks. Dr. M. von Tschirnhaus (1992) established synonymy of Phytobia betulae (Kangas, 1935) with P. c a m b i i (Hendel, 1931). Sasakawa (1994) recorded P. betulae from Japan and in fact he re-surrected this name from synonymy. I reject this proposal because Tschirnhaus���s opinion is based on rearing experiments (Tschirnhaus, personal communication)., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Hendel, F. (1931 - 36) Agromyzidae. 59. Die Fliegen der palaarktischen Region. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), 6 (2), 1 - 570.","Tschirnhaus, M. von. (1992) Minier- und Halmfliegen (Agromyzidae, Chloropidae) und 52 weitere Familien (Diptera) aus Malaise-Fallen in Kiesgruben und einem Vorstadtgarten in Koln. Dechiana-Beihefte (Bonn), 31, 445 - 497.","Kangas, E. (1935) Die Braunfleckigkeit des Birkenholzes und ihr Urheber Dendromyza (Dizygomyza) betulae n. sp. Communicationes Insttuti forestakis Fenniae, 22, 1 - 31.","Sasakawa, M. (1994) Notes on the Japanese Agromyzidae (Diptera) 4. Two Cambium Borers of the Genus Phytobia. Special Bulletin Essa entomological Society, 2, 335 - 338."]}

Phytobia errans (Meigen) Spencer, 1969: 101. Agromyza errans Meigen (1830) is a type-species of the genus Phytobia Lioy designated by monotypy. In original description of A. errans, the type-locality was not given but probably the species was collected near Aachen (Germany) (Papp, 1984: 281). After the original description no information about type material of the Agr. errans have been published and all attempts to find the type specimen were failed (Spencer���s letter communication). In collection of the Zoological Institute (St.Petersburg) there is one male specimen which can be tentatively refers to type specimen. It bears two labels: ��� Agromyza errans ��� written by Meigen���s hand, and ���Meigen det., Brandt Collection���. The specimen is in good condition and its external morphology and structure of male terminalia is completely coincides with the species definition developed by Hendel (1920; 1931), Spencer (1971) and Tschirnhaus (2000). Therefore I propose to designate the specimen mentioned above as neotype., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Spencer, K. A. (1969) The Agromyzidae of Canada and Alaska. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 64, 1 - 311.","Papp, L. (1984) Family Agromyzidae. In: A. Soos & L. Papp (Eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 9, 1 - 460.","Hendel, F. (1920) Die palaarktischen Agromyziden (Prodromus einer Monographie). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, A 84 (1918), 109 - 174.","Hendel, F. (1931 - 36) Agromyzidae. 59. Die Fliegen der palaarktischen Region. In: Lindner, E. (Ed.), 6 (2), 1 - 570.","Spencer, K. A. (1971) Notes on European Agromyzidae (Dipt.) 3. Beitrag fur Entomologie, 21 (3 / 6), 249 - 265.","Tschirnhaus, M. von. (2000) Agromyzidae. In: J. Ziegler, J. & Menzel, F. (Eds.) Die historische Dipteren-Sammlung Carl Friedrich Ketel Revision einer zwischen 1884 und 1903 angelegten Sammlung von Zweifluglern (Diptera) aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Nova Supplementa Entomologica, 14, 133 - 149."]}

Phytobia mallochi (Hendel, 1924) Dizygomyza mallochi Hendel, 1924: 147. Phytobia mallochi (Hendel, 1924) Spencer, 1971: 251, 252; Material seen. GEORGIA: Abkhasia: Myusser Nature Reserve, 13.04. 1978 (leg. V. Richter). Distribution. Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany. New to Georgia., Published as part of Zlobin, Vladimir V., 2008, Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species, pp. 61-66 in Zootaxa 1725 on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181210, {"references":["Hendel, F. (1924) Acht neue europaische Agromyziden (Dipt.). 6. Beitrag zur Blattminenkunde Europas. Konowia, 3, 140 - 148.","Spencer, K. A. (1971) Notes on European Agromyzidae (Dipt.) 3. Beitrag fur Entomologie, 21 (3 / 6), 249 - 265."]}