''Phytomyza'' is a genus of

leaf miner A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), ...

flies in the family Agromyzidae. At least 170 described species are placed in ''Phytomyza''. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

is ''

Phytomyza flaveola ''Phytomyza'' is a genus of leaf miner flies in the family Agromyzidae. At least 170 described species are placed in ''Phytomyza''. The type species is ''Phytomyza flaveola ''Phytomyza'' is a genus of leaf miner flies in the family Agromyzid ...

'', described by Carl Fallén in 1810.

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