67 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:0EB7B745-BA33-591F-8755-8E4C5B0D1E08 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46D8CEF4-19D6-4C04-A352-F60839BA3C4F Check List CheckList 1809-127X Pensoft Publishers 10.15560/20.1.138 112929 Notes on Geographic Distribution Agromyzidae Animalia Diptera Insecta Americas South America Uruguay First record of Soybean Stem Fly Melanagromyza sojae (Zehntner, 1901) (Diptera, Agromyzidae) in Uruguay confirmed by DNA barcoding Cibils-Stewart Ximena xcibils@inia.org.uy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0296-5554 1 Conceptualization Writing - original draft Writing - review and editing Formal analysis Stewart Silvina 1 Conceptualization Writing - review and editing Olivieri Virginia 2 Writing - review and editing Giambiasi Mario 1 Writing - review and editing Data curation Formal analysis Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria Colonia del Sacramento Uruguay Instituto Nacional de Semillas, Evaluación y Registro de Cultivares, Canelones, Uruguay Instituto Nacional de Semillas, Evaluación y Registro de Cultivares Canelones Uruguay

Corresponding author: Ximena Cibils-Stewart (xcibils@inia.org.uy).

Academic editor: Alessandre Pereira-Colavite

 2024 23 01 2024 20 1 138 143 A1E29D8E-A00A-5FBA-B33F-AE7B505382E1 18 09 2023 28 12 2023 Ximena Cibils-Stewart, Silvina Stewart, Virginia Olivieri, Mario Giambiasi This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Colloquially known as Soybean Stem Fly, Melanagromyza sojae (Zehntner, 1901) (Diptera, Agromyzidae) is an oligophagous pest of plants in the family Fabaceae, including Uruguay’s biggest commodity crop, Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). To our knowledge, this is the first scientific record of M. sojae in Uruguay, and we confirm its identity through using DNA barcoding. Characteristic damage to host plants and immature stages of M. sojae were confirmed in Dolores and Colonia, Uruguay.