''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 The Agromyzidae are a family commonly referred to as the leaf-miner flies, for the feeding habits of their larvae, most of which are leaf miners on various plants. A worldwide family of roughly 2,500 species, they are small, some with wing leng ...

. 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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