Kleinschmidtimyia pisi (Kleinschmidt, 1961)
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS
Adults
Wing length: about 1.2 mm. Acrostichals ending soon after the first pair of dorsocentral bristles.
Male terminalia
Aedeagus typical for the Ophiomyia-group but with long terminal tubules; greatly elongated hypandrial apodeme.
Immature stages
Cephalopharyngeal skeleton typical for Ophiomyiini, mandibles with 3-4 mouth hooks. Puparium black with constriction at anterior end.
BIONOMICS
Upper surface leaf miner. The frass is deposited in three distinct pellets, associated with each moult (Kleinschmidt, 1970). As all species within the Ophiomyiini the puparium remains in the mine.
HOST PLANTS
Pisum sativum L., Trifolium sp. (white clover), probably other related fabacean plants. The host plants come to knowledge so far are introduced to Australia; the native host is not yet known (Spencer, 1990).
DISTRIBUTION
Australia: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, Lord Howe Island.
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
Unknown.