PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



by the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 109 Washington : 1959 No. 3414 



FLIES OF THE GENUS ODINIA IN THE WESTERN 

 HEMISPHERE (DIPTERA : ODINIIDAE) 



By Curtis W. Sabrosky^ 



The small acalyptrate genus Odinia Robineau-Desvoidy was long 

 referred to the Agromyzidae, but is now generally placed in a separate 

 family, the Odiniidae. Melander (1913, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 21, p. 248), in revising the North American Agromyzidae, gave 

 a key to four species of Odinia, including one now referred to a dif- 

 ferent family. Otherwise, the genus has not been reviewed for the 

 Western Hemisphere. The present paper includes nine species, 

 five of them new. After this paper was prepared, I received a teneral 

 female specimen from Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug. 5, 1958, Ben Osuna, 

 that may represent a new species. It was collected in a Steiner 

 fruit-fly trap. It is close to meijerei, but the wing spots are very 

 distinct, those covering the crossveins especially broad and dark, and 

 the midtibia has only a single strong bristle ventraUy at the apex. 



Six New World species are recorded in the literature: picta (Loew), 

 described from Georgia; wiiliamsi Johnson, described from the Gala- 

 pagos Islands; immacvlata Coquillett, described from New Hampshire; 

 and three species described from Europe and recorded from North 

 America, boletina (Zetterstedt), ornata (Zetterstedt), and macvlata 



^ Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



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