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Scaptomyza (Scaptomyza) flava
Authors/Creators
- 1. Canadian National Collection of Insects (CNC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K 1 A 0 C 6, Canada
- 2. Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, David Agmashenebeli Alley, # 240, Tbilisi – 0159, Georgia & Invertebrate Research Center, Tetritsklebi, Telavi Municipality – 2200, Telavi, Georgia
Description
Scaptomyza (Scaptomyza) flava (Fallén)
Fig. 3 D
LPA.
CNC 474368 ♀ (H 6, 23. v – 13. vi. 2014); CNC 474258 ♀ (H 4, 3. v. 2014); CNC 1146432 ♂ (H 4, 25. v – 4. vi. 2014).
Distribution.
Cosmopolitan species (Brake and Bächli 2008). New for Transcaucasia (Georgia).
Remarks.
Scaptomyza flava is a leaf-miner attacking various plants, largely Brassicas (Bächli et al. 2004). Additional records of S. flava from Georgia (Bakuriani) are yet to be published based on the specimens deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM, Budapest, Hungary) (G. Bächli, personal communication, January 27, 2026).
Notes
Published as part of Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad & Japoshvili, George, 2026, Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Lagodekhi and Vashlovani Protected Areas of Georgia (Sakartvelo), with a list of Transcaucasian species, pp. 55-62 in Evolutionary Systematics 10 (1) on pages 55-62, DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.10.183485
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fallen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Drosophilidae
- Genus
- Scaptomyza
- Species
- flava
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Brake I, Bächli G (2008) World Catalogue of Insects (Vol. 9). Drosophilidae (Diptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 412 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004261037_010
- Bächli G, Vilela CR, Anderson Escher S, Saura A (2004) The Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica (Vol. 39). Brill, Leiden, 362 pp. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10734452