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Grass Sheathminer in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (9/14/2022). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved. (Photo ID: 751485 - Psn: 165)

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Grass Sheathminer in Washington Co., Maryland (8/5/2022). (c) Deborah Barber, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>CC BY-NC</a>). (Photo ID: 630080 - Psn: 176)

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Status

Widespread from Canada to Brazil.

Relationships

Larvae mine a variety of grass leaves, including corn.

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Source: Wikipedia

Cerodontha dorsalis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Agromyzidae
Subfamily:	Phytomyzinae
Genus:	Cerodontha
Species:	C. dorsalis
Binomial name
*Cerodontha dorsalis* (Loew, 1863)^[1]

Cerodontha dorsalis, the grass sheathminer, is a species of fly in the family Agromyzidae.^[2]

Distribution

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Canada, United States, Mongolia, Neotropical.

References

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^ Loew, Hermann (1863). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia". Berl. Entomol. Z. 7: 1–55. doi:10.1002/mmnd.18630070104. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^ Spencer, Kenneth A. (1973). Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Economic importance Series Entomologica. Vol. 9. The Hague. D. Gld.: Dr. W. Junk bv. pp. xii + 418 p.

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Grass Sheathminer

Cerodontha dorsalis (Loew, 1863)

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