Check List 20(5): 1266-1271, doi: 10.15560/20.5.1266

First record of Phytomyza rufipes Meigen, 1830 (Diptera, Agromyzidae) affecting Canola in Uruguay

Ximena Cibils-Stewart^‡, Silvina Stewart^‡, Alejandro Álvarez^§, Mario Giambiasi^|

‡ Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Sistema Agrícola-Ganadero, Colonia, Uruguay§ Unión Rural de Flores, Flores, Uruguay| Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Sistema Vegetal Intensivo, Estación Salto Grande (Biotecnología, Camino al Terrible S/N) Salto, Uruguay., Salto, Uruguay

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

Academic editor: Alessandre Pereira-Colavite

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Citation: Cibils-Stewart X, Stewart S, Álvarez A, Giambiasi M (2024) First record of Phytomyza rufipes Meigen, 1830 (Diptera, Agromyzidae) affecting Canola in Uruguay. Check List 20(5): 1266-1271. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.5.1266

Abstract

The leafminer Phytomyza rufipes Meigen, 1830 (Diptera, Agromyzidae) is an oligophagous pest of plants of the family Cruciferae. These include Canola, Brassica napus L. We report the record of P. rufipes in Uruguay, which is conﬁrmed through molecular characterization using DNA barcoding. Characteristic dam-age symptoms and immature stages of the pest were ﬁrst conﬁrmed on a Canola crop in Flores, Uruguay.

Keywords

mtDNA COI, stem minor, stem borer ﬂies