Napomyza merita

Family

Subfamily

Genus

Species

Napomyza merita Zlobin, 1993

Mine

Unknown.

Host Plants

• Unknown

Confusion Species

N/A.

Recording Grade

*

National Status

Unknown.

Puparium

Unknown.

Adult

Head: orbits usually projecting above eye in profile, slightly prominent. 2 ors, 2 ori; third antennal segment small, not longer than broad, almost rectangular, with short but dense pubescence.
Wing: 1.9-2.0 mm.
Colour: essentially as in N. lateralis; wings hyaline or slightly brownish, squamal margin and fringe pale.
Male genitalia: hind margin of epandrium in profile before apex distinctly cut out. Epiphallus at the base with acute projection. Phallophor almost straight, only slightly broadening distally. Left sclerite of basiphallus narrow, its basal section only slightly shorter than distal one. Medial lobe of hypophallus present. Sclerites of paramesophallus greatly broadening basally and angulately curving beyond the middle. Mesophallus slightly broadening apically. Neck of distiphallus only slightly narrower than apical part of mesophallus, relatively short, with distinct curvature. Head of distiphallus in profile more or less triangulate. Lateral arms of hypandrium with distinct prominances near middle. Postgonite with rounded notch ventrally.