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Descriptions of two new species of the genus Lasioptera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that infest tomato in the Mediterranean Region and Hokkaido, Japan

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Two new species, Lasioptera tomaticola Yukawa and Harris from the Mediterranean Region and Lasioptera yoichiensis Yukawa and Kim from Japan (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) are described. They damage tomato, Solanum lycopersicum Linnaeus (Solanaceae: South American origin), respectively, in the Mediterranean Region (Greece, Romania and Turkey) and Japan (Hokkaido). Lasioptera tomaticola was found also to infest cucumber, Cucumis sativus Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae: Asian origin) in the Mediterranean Region. Morphological characters and genetic data indicated that the two species were distinct. They were also morphologically different from Lasioptera kallstroemia Felt and Lasioptera solani (Felt) that occur on Solanum spp. (Solanaceae) in North America, Lasioptera falcata Felt on unidentified species of Cucurbitaceae in India and the Philippines, Lasioptera toombii Grover on Coccinia grandis (Cucurbitaceae) in India, and Lasioptera sp. on three genera of Cucurbitaceae in Japan. We could not determine whether L. tomaticola is a species of Palaearctic origin, while we considered that L. yoichiensis was accidentally introduced from overseas to Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan.

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We express our sincere gratitude to RJ Gagné (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA) for reviewing an early draft of this paper and giving us valuable morphological information on the types of L. kallstroemia, L. solani and Lasioptera falcata that are kept in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. We extend our thanks to the following persons for providing us with specimens of Lasioptera spp. for identification and genetic analysis: HD Büyüköztürk (Turkey), M Cean (Romania), EGM Dijkstra (The Netherlands), N Dorchin (Israel), T Ganaha-Kikumura (Okinawa, Japan), N Hashimoto (Hokkaido, Japan), T Ichita (Aomori, Japan), A Iwasaki (Hokkaido), T Kiliç (Turkey), T Minami (Hokkaido), T Miyatake (Okayama), M Nicolae (Romania), K Ogata (Kagoshima, Japan), D Perdikis (Greece), E Roditakis (Greece), S Sakai (Miyagi, Japan), M Solinas (Italy), R Sonobe (Tochigi, Japan) and H Yoshimura (Hyogo, Japan). Our thanks are also due to the following persons for giving us information on the infestation of the tomato gall midges and the distribution of Lasioptera species on wild plants: A Raman (Australia), G Aydin (Turkey), A. Gol (Iran), VC Maia (Brazil), E Pierre (Réunion), A Sharma (India), A Sumino (Hokkaido, Japan), M Tokuda (Saga, Japan) and N Uechi (Tsukuba, Japan). Photographs of tomato damaged by L. yoichiensis were taken by N Hashimoto and A Iwasaki (Hokkaido), and SEM and microscopic photographs were taken with the help of T Mita and D Yamaguchi (Kyushu University), to whom we are deeply indebted. We are grateful to anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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Yukawa, J., Harris, K.M. & Kim, W. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Lasioptera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that infest tomato in the Mediterranean Region and Hokkaido, Japan. Appl Entomol Zool 55, 129–140 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-019-00662-w

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