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It is not often that a species new to science is described from Suffolk. So it is interesting to report that a new species of Agromyzidae, - a family commonly referred to as the leaf-miner flies, was described from adults raised from the puparia collected from hemp-agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) at the Suffolk Wildlife Trust reserve of Lackford Lakes. Graham Moates, a Suffolk Wildlife Trust volunteer worker, discovered the puparia in the stems of hemp-agrimony and sent them to Barry Warrington - organiser of the Dipterists Forum National Agromyzidae Recording Scheme, to identify. As the plant belongs to the Asteraceae there were only a small number of possible species that it could be and after examining the puparia Barry Warrington concluded it was unlikely that any of these species were involved. Graham Moates was then able to collect more puparia from hemp-agrimony stems from sites across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, including the Little Ouse Headwaters Project sites of Thelnetham New Fen and Bleyswyck’s Bank. The puparia were reared to adults and following detailed examination of these specimens by Barry Warrington, and with consultation with other European experts, it was concluded the description of these specimens did not agree with that of any described Agromyzidae, and the specimen must be un-described and new to science (Warrington, 2019). The holotype and four paratypes have been deposited at the National History Museum in London. In recognition of the great lengths Graham Moates went to obtain material from sites across eastern England Barry Warrington had great pleasure in naming this new fly Melanagromyza moatesi Warrington, 2019. To have a species named after you is a rare thing and an honour. In the British diptera I believe that only two other Suffolk naturalists have that distinction. These are the distinguished dipterists; George Henry Verrall and his nephew James Edward Collin, who both lived at Newmarket. On the current British diptera checklist there are 14 species with the specific name verralli and 15 with the specific name collini. Considering that between them Verrall and Collin described some 900 species of diptera they well deserved that recognition. Claude Morley, founder of the Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, and eminent entomologist himself does not have any flies named after him, but there is an Ichneumon Saotis morleyi Fitton, 1976, whose name recognises his contribution to work on that order.
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In addition to species mentioned above, some interesting and uncommon species that have recently been recorded from Suffolk include, the Agromyzids, Liriomyza pedestris Hendel, 1931 and Napomyza scrophulariae Spencer, 1966, the Anthomyiid, Calythea nigricans (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830), the Anthomyzid Paranthomyza nitida (Meigen, 1838), the Bolitophilid, Bolitophila saundersii (Curtis, 1836), the Cecidomyiid, Rhopalomyia tanaceticola (Karsch, 1879) gall, the Chaoborid Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen, 1830), the Chironomids, Brillia bifida (Kieffer, 1909), Gymnometriocnemus brumalis (Edwards, 1929), Micropsectra junci (Meigen, 1818), Polypedilum nubeculosum (Meigen, 1804) and Psectrotanypus varius (Fabricius, 1787), the Chloropid, Chlorops frontosus Meigen, 1830, the Dolichopodids, Hercostomus gracilis (Stannius, 1831), Neurigona pallida (Fallén, 1823), and Xanthochlorus galbanus Chandler & Negrobov, 2008, the Empidids, Empis nigritarsis Meigen, 1804 and Hilara manicata Meigen, 1822, the Fanniids, Fannia pallitibia (Rondani, 1866) and F. postica (Stein, 1895), the Heleomyzid, Suillia pallida (Fallén, 1820), the Hybotids, Leptopeza flavipes (Meigen, 1820) and Platypalpus maculipes (Meigen, 1822), the Milichiid, Phyllomyza securicornis Fallén, 1823, the Muscids, Azelia aterrima (Meigen, 1826), A. nebulosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, Coenosia antennata (Zetterstedt, 1849), C. lacteipennis (Zetterstedt, 1845), C. pygmaea (Zetterstedt, 1845), Helina sexmaculata (Preyssler, 1791), Hydrotaea ignava (Harris, [1780]) and Limnophora triangula Fallén, 1825, the Opomyzid, Geomyza subnigra Drake, 1992, the Pallopterids, Palloptera muliebris (Harris, [1780]), P. quinquemaculata (Macquart, 1835) and P. trimacula (Meigen, 1826), the Pipunculid, Dorylomorpha hungarica (Aczél, 1939), the Platypezid, Protoclythia rufa (Meigen, 1830), the Psychodids, Pericoma compta Eaton, 1893, P. fuliginosa (Meigen, 1804), P. pilularia Tonnoir, 1940, P. trivialis Eaton, 1893 and Philosepedon humeralis (Meigen, 1818), the Scatopsid, Anapausis soluta (Loew, 1846), the Sciomyzid, Trypetoptera punctulata (Scopoli, 1763), the Sphaerocerids, Borborillus uncinatus (Duda, 1923), Chaetopodella scutellaris (Haliday, 1836), Copromyza equina Fallén, 1820, Eulimosina ochripes (Meigen, 1830), Leptocera fontinalis (Fallén, 1826) and Pteremis fenestralis (Fallén, 1820), the Stratiomyid Oxycera nigricornis Olivier, 1812, the Tabanid, Tabanus bromius Linnaeus, 1758 and T. maculicornis Zetterstedt, 1842, the Tachinid, Linnaemya picta (Meigen, 1824), the Tephritids, Chaetostomella cylindrica (RobineauDesvoidy, 1830), Orellia falcata (Scopoli, 1763) and Terellia serratulae (Linnaeus, 1758), the Tipulid, Dictenidia bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1761), the Trixoscelidid, Trixoscelis marginella (Fallén, 1823) and the Ulidiidae, Herina lugubris (Meigen, 1826). References Warrington, B.P. (2019). A new species of the genus Melanagromyza (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from Eastern England. Dipterists Digest (second series) 26: 181-194. Peter Vincent Pennyfields, Rectory Road, Middleton. IP17 3NW
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