''Melanagromyza'' is a genus of
flies
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced m ...
belonging to the family
Agromyzidae
The Agromyzidae are a family commonly referred to as the leaf-miner flies, for the feeding habits of their larvae, most of which are leaf miners on various plants.
A worldwide family of roughly 2,500 species, they are small, some with wing l ...
.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The extr ...
.
Species:
* ''
Melanagromyza achilleana''
Sehgal, 1971
* ''Melanagromyza aenea''
*''Melanagromyza chaerophylli''
Spencer, 1969
*''Melanagromyza aeneoventris''
*''Melanagromyza albocilia''
*''Melanagromyza angeliciphaga''
*''Melanagromyza chalcosoma''
*''Melanagromyza chaptaliae''
*''Melanagromyza cleomae''
*''Melanagromyza lappae''
*''Melanagromyza metallica''
*''Melanagromyza minimoides''
*''Melanagromyza nigrissima''
*''Melanagromyza obtusa''
*''Melanagromyza pubescens''
*''Melanagromyza ruelliae''
*''Melanagromyza sojae''
*''Melanagromyza verbesinae''
*''Melanagromyza virens''
*''Melanagromyza virginiensis''
*''Melanagromyza uricella''
Spencer, 1981
References
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Agromyzidae
Opomyzoidea genera