''Melanagromyza'' is a genus of
flies
Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...
belonging to the family
Agromyzidae
The Agromyzidae are a family of flies, commonly referred to as the leaf-miner flies for the feeding habits of their larvae, most of which are leaf miners on various plants. It includes roughly 2,500 species, they are small, some with wing length ...
.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
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