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Herring-bone Leafminer
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Herring-bone Leafminer

Ophiomyia camarae

Ophiomyia camarae is a fly native to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Florida but has been introduced as biological control agent to many countries outside of the Americas as biological control agent of Lantana camara. The adult have a size of 1.5–2 mm are shiny, black with red compound eyes.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 679829.