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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
ENDOPTERYGOTA
(insects with wings developing internally)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)
ACALYPTRATA
(acalypterate flies)
AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)
Metopomyza
(a genus of leaf-mining flies)
Metopomyza scutellata
(a leaf-mining fly)
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Metopomyza scutellata (Fallen) (a leaf-mining fly)

Suggested Literature

Metopomyza scutellata may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 HEXAPODA
(hexapods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)		 ACALYPTRATA
(acalypterate flies)		 AGROMYZIDAE
(leaf-mining flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Metopomyza scutellata is associated with:

Photos larva Carex - sedges (Cyperaceae) larva mines leaf Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [deep, narrow mine in upper surface, frass in two regular rows]
Photos puparium Carex - sedges (Cyperaceae) puparium may be found on leaf Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972

There may be more taxa associated with Metopomyza scutellata listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)		 CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Metopomyza scutellata:

Metopomyza scutellata may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

References

Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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