Agromyzidae (Insecta: Diptera) is a cosmopolitan family of acalyptrate flies, with almost 3,000 species worldwide distributed. Most are leaf miners on large number plants. Among them, Liriomyza Mik, 1894 genus leaf-miner that can cause significant damage to economically important crops and considered agricultural pests, such as sativae Blanchard, 1938 huidobrensis (Blanchard, 1926), which herei...

Among the most common and serious tomato plant pests, leafminer flies (Liriomyza sativae) are considered one of major tomato-plant-damaging pests worldwide. Detecting infestation quantifying severity these essential for reducing their outbreaks through effective management ensuring successful production. Traditionally, detection quantification performed manually in field. This is time-consuming...

In disparate organisms adaptation to thermal stress has been linked to changes in the expression of genes encoding heat-shock proteins (Hsp). The underlying genetics, however, remain elusive. We show here that two AT-rich sequence elements in the promoter region of the hsp70 gene of the fly Liriomyza sativae that are absent in the congeneric species, Liriomyza huidobrensis, have marked cis-regu...

Diglyphus isaea Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is an important ectoparasitic wasp of many leaf miners. Ability of D. isaea to find hosts placed in artificial mines and for its larvae to pupate when the larva is not in a mine was studied. Artificial mines consisted of slits cut in index card sandwiched between two cover slips. Almost 80% of the neonate larvae of D. isaea located host larvae in...