103urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:77d0745d-c3a1-5248-81de-8cdc02bed84aArthropod Systematics & PhylogenyASP1863-72211864-8312Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung10.3897/asp.80.e8283182831Research ArticleAnthomyiidaeBrachyceraCalyptrataeCyclorrhaphaDipteraHexapodaInsectaShizophoraIdentification keyMolecular systematicsMorphology & AnatomyTaxonomyIntegrating morphology and DNA barcodes for identification of Deliasanctijacobi Bigot 1885 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae): new host and new records in South AmericaGomesLucas Roberto Pereiralucaspergos@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-20151ZawadneakMaria Aparecida Cassilhahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0004-56231da Costa-RibeiroMagda Clara Vieira1JarekTiago Miguel1de CarvalhoClaudio José Barroshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-68531Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Cel. Francisco H. dos Santos, 100 - Jardim das Americas, Curitiba - PR, 81530-000, BrazilUniversidade Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrazilUniversidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Patologia Básica, BrazilUniversidade Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrazilUniversidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Fitotecnia e Fitossanitarismo, BrazilUniversidade Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrazil
Corresponding author: Lucas Roberto Pereira Gomes (lucaspergos@gmail.com)
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Deliasanctijacobi is critically assessed and given a revised description using data from scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and DNA barcode analysis. This species is recorded for the first time in Brazil and Peru. We provide a morphological identification key (with figures) for Delia species from Brazil, a molecular identification based on COI (cytochrome C oxidase subunit I) barcode sequences and an updated distributional map. We also report the first occurrence of D.sanctijacobi feeding on Brassica species in Brazil. This potential pest was observed in broccoli roots (Brassicaoleraceavar.italica; Brassicaceae) in União da Vitória, Paraná, southern Brazil, in August and September of 2017. The infested plants displayed reduced growth due to damage to the stem base or death if severely attacked.
Brassicaceaecruciferous vegetablesDNA barcodeinsect pestNeotropical Regionplant–insect interactionroot maggot fliesConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico501100003593http://doi.org/10.13039/5011000035931. Introduction
Root maggot flies (Delia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) are polyphagous, and some species, such as D.platura Meigen 1826, are considered important agricultural pests in innumerable plant species of commercial interest, causing important crop losses (Griffiths 1986; Gouinguené and Städler 2006; Meraz-Álvarez et al. 2020). Delia is a diverse and unclear genus whose species are found mainly in subalpine and subarctic areas of the Palearctic and Nearctic regions (Griffiths 1986). Three agricultural pest species, Deliaantiqua Meigen, 1826, D.platura and D.radicum Linnaeus, 1758, are found in Brazil (de D’Araujo e Silva et al. 1968; de Carvalho and Couri 2018); however, all of these records could be cases of misidentification and need to be revised. Here, we present the first records of D.sanctijacobi (Bigot, 1885) from southern Brazil (25 records) and Peru (a record from Cuzco). Other Delia species, such as D.radicum and D.floralis, have a wide host range, including most cultivated crucifers, and wild crucifers such as stinkweed (Thlaspiarvense Linnaeus, 1753) are potential hosts (Strickland 1938; Griffiths 1991).
Deliasanctijacobi is native to South America and is suspected to have been introduced, probably through human dispersion with Chilean vegetables, to coastal localities in western Alaska (Cold Bay and Unalakleet) (Griffiths 1993). D.sanctijacobi larvae are commonly known as “potato worms”, as the adults are attracted by decaying fruits and lay their eggs near cuts in potatoes or seeds (Hamity and Roman 1987). This species attacks the seeds of corn, bean (cotyledons), pumpkin, melon, wheat, flax, garlic, sunflower, and cauliflower (Brassica cv.), as well as the seedlings of tomato, eggplant, and onion (Molinari 1942; Quintanilla 1969; Griffiths 1993). The largest population is found in the spring (Hamity and Roman 1987). Some D.sanctijacobi specimens used in this study were found feeding on broccoli (BrassicaoleraceaL.var.italica), an important vegetable crop of the family Brassicaceae (Kumar and Srivastava 2016).
Deliasanctijacobi and D.platura are similar species (Hamity and Roman 1987; Griffiths 1993). Hennig (1955) considered D.sanctijacobi, previously known as the subspecies D.platurasanctijacobi, to be a South American lineage of D.platura, indicating that D.platura probably does not occur in South America. Griffiths (1993) described some male morphological differences in the chaetotaxy of the legs and terminalia; however, differences between D.platura and D.sanctijacobi females have not been established (Griffiths 1993). Wang et al. (2014) presented scanning electronic microscope (SEM) images of different structures of D.platura, including male and female genitalia. Gomes et al. (2018) presented a key to “Muscoidea” species from Juan Fernández Archipelago, including D.sanctijacobi and D.platura. Gomes et al. (2021) presented a phylogenetic analysis of Anthomyiidae based on molecular data, including three species of Delia, and recovered D.radicum + (D.platura + D.sanctijacobi).
Delia pest species can be difficult to identify without extensive training, mainly when dealing with females or immature specimens, which lack diagnostic features (Savage et al. 2016). In addition, Delia species are very similar and genital characters are necessary to make a correct identification (Griffiths 1993). Savage et al. (2016) provided keys (with images) to the different life stages of Delia pests from Canada (including the three species also found in Brazil, namely, D.antiqua, D.platura and D.radicum). These authors also provided a reference DNA barcode for each of these species.
In this present contribution, we report the first record of Deliasanctijacobi in Brazil and Peru. We provide a morphological redescription of D.sanctijacobi, an updated distributional map of Delia species and an identification key for adults. Additionally, we provide DNA barcode sequences as an undoubtedly molecular taxonomy tool for the identification of this economically important species. Finally, we report the first occurrence of D.sanctijacobi feeding on cultivated Brassica species in Brazil.
2. Material and methods2.1. Material
We examined 1064 specimens (573 males and 491 females) from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, including 46 locations, deposited in
DZUP – Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná and
MNRJ – Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
2.2. Methods2.2.1. Dissections and terminology
For the examination of the terminalia, the abdomen was removed from a dry specimen and placed in cold potassium hydroxide (KOH) 10% for 24 h to soften and lighten the parts. The abdomen was transferred to acetic acid, and then to glycerin. Examination and illustration of the structures were performed using a microscope and a stereomicroscope with an attached camera lucida. Dissected terminalia were placed in glycerin in microvials pinned beneath the respective specimens. For the examination of terminalia by SEM, the terminalia was removed from each specimen, dehydrated using 99.5% ethanol, glued on cooper tape and coated with gold-palladium. The dissected parts were placed in a plastic microvial with glycerin and pinned with the respective specimen. The morphological terminology followed Cumming and Wood (2017).
2.2.2. Images and measurements
Images were stacked using an auto-montage setup acquired by the Taxonline project (UFPR – http://www.taxonline.bio.br). Scanning electronic microscope (SEM) images were taken using a JEOL JSM 6360-LV at Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil (UFPR – http://www.cme.ufpr.br/). The QGIS software (available in: http://www.qgis.org/en/site) was used to create maps of distribution. Geographical coordinates were found at Google Maps (https://www.google.com.br/maps/) based on the place name (location) available on the labels and in the literature. The locations from Argentina based on Hamity and Roman (1987) (Santa Fe, Tucumán, Córdoba, Cuyo and Jujuy), have no location-specific information, and their estimated coordinates were placed at each state center.
2.2.3. DNA extraction, amplification, sequencing and barcode analysis
DNA extraction was conducted through a nondestructive method using the whole specimen with body perforations and the GenElute™ Blood Genomic DNA Kit. The complete sequence primers used were LCO-1490f: 5’ GGT CAA CAA ATC ATA AAG ATA TTG G 3’, and HCO-2198r: 5’ TAA ACT TCA GGG TGA CCA AAA AAT CA 3’ (Folmer 1994). The MyTaq™ DNA Polymerase kit (Bioline Reagentes Ltd, the United Kingdom) was used for PCR amplification. The 25 μL reaction consisted of 17.5 μL of sterilized ultrapure water, 5 μL 5x MyTaq Reaction Buffer (comprising 15 mM MgCl2 and 5 mM dNTPs), 0.5 μL of each primer, 0.2 μL of MyTaq DNA Polymerase, and 1.0 μL of DNA extracted from the specimen. The PCR amplification conditions were as follows: 94°C for 5 min, 39 cycles at 94°C for 45 s, 51°C for 50 s and 72°C for 2 min, and a final extension at 72°C for 10 min. The PCR products were visualized on a 1.0% agarose gel. PCR products were sent to WenSeq Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Ltda. (Curitiba) for sequencing.
Neighbor-joining (NJ; Saitou and Nei 1987) was chosen as the best-performing method for low sample sizes among the available phylogenetic, simple distance-based and supervised statistical classification methods (Austerlitz et al. 2009). The sequencing was aligned using the ClustalW procedure (Thompson et al. 1994) using MEGA7 (Kumar et al. 2016). The NJ and ML trees were constructed using the Kimura-2-Parameter model (K2P) (Kimura 1980) by MEGA7, with uniform rates among sites. The bootstrap consensus tree was generated with 1000 replicates (Felsenstein 1985). The ML heuristic method was nearest-neighbor-interchange (NNI). For both analyses the ingroup was composed of 39 COI sequences (ranging from 595 to 658 base pairs) from five Delia species, all of which were deposited in the BOLD database (The Barcode of Life Data System, http://www.barcodinglife.org) and previously used by Savage et al. (2016), and four newly collected COI sequences from D.sanctijacobi from two locations (Palmas and União da Vitória). We used five sequences of Botanophilaspinidens (Malloch, 1920) (all previously available in GenBank) as the outgroup. All sequences used in this study are presented in Table 1. Pairwise distances within and between species were calculated using Kimura’s 2-parameter (K2P) distance model in MEGA7 (Kumar et al. 2016) (Table 2).
Details of Delia species and outgroup processed in the study along with the BOLD/GenBank numbers. *Newly collected COI sequences; BBOLD accession number; GGenBank acession number.
Pairwise of sequence divergent within Delia species and outgroup based on Kimura-2-parameter model (K2P).
Species
n
Bspi
Dant
Dfls
Dflg
Dpla
Drad
Dsan
Bspi
5
0.011
Dant
6
0.123
0.000
Dfls
4
0.112
0.094
0.000
Dflg
8
0.124
0.060
0.081
0.005
Dpla
16
0.125
0.072
0.088
0.058
0.047
Drad
5
0.119
0.090
0.067
0.084
0.092
0.000
Dsan
4
0.115
0.060
0.088
0.048
0.055
0.090
0.002
The numbers of intraspecific distances are shown in boldface for clarity. Numbers underlined indicate the highest intraspecific distance and the lowest interspecific distance. n = Number of sequences. Bspi = Botanophilaspinidens; Dant = Deliaantiqua; Dfls = Deliafloralis; Dflg = Deliaflorilega; Dpla = Deliaplatura; Drad = Deliaradicum; Dsan = Deliasanctijacobi.
Depositories. DZUP – Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná; MNRJ – Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; USNM – National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA.
3. Results3.1. DNA Barcode analyses
To confirm the validity of D.sanctijacobi, we used 39 mitochondrial COI gene sequences from five Delia species from BOLD Systems (www.boldsystems.org/) and included four newly collected COI sequences from D.sanctijacobi. Five sequences from Botanophilaspinidens from GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) were used as the outgroup (Table 1). Similar topologies were observed in both COI sequence analyses. The only difference was related to D.florilega, which was recovered as sister group of D.sanctijacobi, and D.platura on ML and recovered as sister group of D.antiqua on NJ (Fig. 1). According to the pairwise distances values of K2P, D.sanctijacobi has a low intraspecific distance (0.002) and a high interspecific divergence (0.048–0.090). Among the Delia species, D.sanctijacobi has the highest similarity to D.florilega (0.048). The conspecific K2P divergence of Delia species ranges from 0.000 to 0.047. The sequence divergence between species ranges from 0.048 to 0.094 (Table 2).
Neighbour joining (NJ) and Maximum likelihood (ML) tree of Delia based in COI sequences. Numbers on branches indicate the bootstrap support values (1000 replicates). D.sanctijacobi – red box; D.platura – violet box; D.florilega – blue box; D.antiqua – green box; D.radicum – orange box; Botanophilaspinidens – gray box. Evolutionary distance divergence scale bar: 0.01.
Eye usually bare; frons usually narrow in male and broad in female; with pairs of inter frontal setae; legs black or yellow; fore tibia with 0–1 ad, 1–2 medial p or 1–2 pv and 1 apical pv; mid tibia with 1 pd; hind femur without pv row or apical pv; hypopygium with fine or weak setae; surstylus longer than cercus, not bifurcate apically; aedeagus slender, apical part with distiphallus in most species. Female: tergum 5 usually without discal setae (Huckett 1971; Du and Xue 2017, listed by various authors).
3.3. Identification key
Key to male Delia species from Brazil (modified from Savage et al. 2016)
1
Prealar setae at least as long as notopleural setae; ventral surface of costal vein (C) setulose, with hairs reaching at least the insertion point of vein R1
D.radicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
1’
Prealar setae absent or very short, never as long as notopleural setae (Fig. 2A); ventral surface of costal vein (C) bare or with a few sparse hairs distal from the insertion point of the subcostal vein (Sc) (Fig. 2B)
2
2
Hind tibia with 7–15 short erect posteroventral setae; frontal vitta visible at narrowest point of frons (Fig. 2C); parafacial broad in lateral view (Fig. 2D)
D.antiqua (Meigen, 1826)
2’
Hind tibia with >18 short erect posteroventral setae (Fig. 2E, F); frontal vitta usually obliterated at narrowest point of frons (Fig. 3A); parafacial narrow in lateral view (Fig. 2A)
3
3
First tarsomere of midleg without a brush of long dorsal bristles, only with regular setae (Fig. 2G); row of pv setae on hind tibia with similar length of tibia width (Fig. 2E)
D.platura (Meigen, 1826)
3’
First tarsomere of midleg with a brush of long dorsal setae (Fig. 2H); row of pv setae on hind tibia longer than tibia width (Fig. 2F)
Male. First tarsomere of midleg with a brush of long setulae (longer than tibia width) on its dorsal surface. Row of 32–45 pv setae on hind tibia longer than tibia width. Sternite 5 processes each with 2–3 truncate spinules on inner apical corner. Cercus approximately 3 times as long as wide with 6 long apical setae. D.sanctijacobi genitalia is quite similar to D.platura, except postgonite slightly longer than in D.platura (similar to postgonite length) and distally narrowed in lateral view. Surstylus 1/3 more enlarged than D.platura.
Deliasanctijacobi. A parafacial (black arrow), prealar (white arrow), lateral view. B wing, ventral view; Deliaantiqua. C head, frontal view. D head, lateral view; Deliaplatura. E hind tibia; Deliasanctijacobi. F hind tibia; Deliaplatura. G first tarsomere of the midleg; Deliasanctijacobi. H first tarsomere of the midleg.
Measurements: Male. Body length 4.5–5.0 mm; wing length 4.7–5.3 mm (Fig. 3B). — Head: Eye sparsely and shortly setulose; frontal vitta dark brown; eyes separated by less than width of anterior ocellus (Fig. 3A); frontal setae 5–8 pairs; short interfrontal setae usually present; fronto-orbital plate and parafacial brownish or yellowish-orange, with gray pruinosity; antenna dark-brown, postpedicel approximately 2.0 times longer than wide; arista short pubescent; gena with gray pruinosity, genal height approximately 3 times the pedicel length (Fig. 3B); anterior margin of gena with 2–4 upcurved subvibrissal setae; palpus dark-brown. — Thorax: Light-brown with gray pruinosity; scutum distinct with 3 black vittae visible at acrostichals region and among dorsocentral and intra-alars (Fig. 3C); acrostichal setae 3+6–9, dorsocentral setae 2+3, intra-alar setae 1+2, prealar seta about half length of posterior notopleural seta; scutellum light-brown, ventral margins with white hairs apically, basal scutellar setae and apical scutellar setae developed; notopleuron with two same length setae and without covered setulae; prosternum, anepimeron, meron and katepimeron bare; katepisternal setae 1+2. — Legs: Entirely dark-brown; fore tibia with 1 medial pv, preapical d with half-length of first tarsomere, and apical seta on v; mid femur with a row of setae on ad and av, a row of long (longer than femur width) pv in basal half; mid tibia with 1 pd, 1–2 pv and 1 submedian ad, long (longer than tibia width) apical setae on a, d, pv, v, first tarsomere of midleg with a brush of long setulae (longer than tibia width) on its dorsal surface; hind femur with a complete row on ad becoming long apically, a basal half row on pv, an apical half row on av and d; hind tibia with 3–5 av, 7–11 ad, 4 pd, becoming longer apically, 32–45 pv with slightly bent tips in largely duplicated rows, a preapical d, apical setae on av. Claws black and pulvillus white. — Wing: Veins bare, except costal; costal with all spinules short (pair before distal break twice longer), ventrally bare; dm-m slightly sinuate; calypteres yellow, marginal hairs long and light yellow, lower calypter developed, but smaller than upper; halter yellow. — Abdomen: Slender, with gray pruinosity and a dark stripe dorsally, dense and long setulose, marginal setae longer (approximately 1/3 of abdomen length) (Fig. 3C); sternite 1 with long dense setulae (longer than sternite length); sternite 4 with a pair of long setae (longer than sternite length); sternite 5 processes projecting, with outer lateral setae becoming longer distally, each with 2–3 truncate spinules on inner apical corner (Fig. 4A). — Terminalia: pregonite with 2 setae; postgonite with 1 seta; cercus approximately 3 times as long as wide, elongate-ovoid (broadest on distal half) with 6 long setae distally and 4 long lateral setae on each side; surstyli slender and almost twice longer than cercus, phallapodeme straight; epiphallus short, similar to postgonite length; distiphallus long, three times longer than pregonite, bifurcate distally (Figs 4C; 5A, B).
Male Deliasanctijacobi (Bigot, 1885). A head, anterior view. B lateral view. C dorsal view. Female Deliasanctijacobi (Bigot, 1885). D head, anterior view. E lateral view. F dorsal view.
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Female. Measurements: Body length 4.0–5.5 mm; wing length 4.5–5.5 mm. Similar to male, except: Frons approximately 1/3 of head width (Fig. 3D); frontal vitta approximately 5 times as wide as fronto-orbital plate; a pair of interfrontal setae; region among interfrontal setae and lunula yellowish-orange; 5 pairs of frontal setae; outer vertical seta long and divergent; inner vertical seta long and convergent; ocelar, outer vertical seta and inner vertical seta with similar length; fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with brownish-gray pruinosity; body with brownish-gray pruinosity (Fig. 3E, F); fore tibia with 1 medial ad; mid tibia with 2 median ad, pd and pv; pre-apical setae on ad, av, pd and pv; hind tibia with 2–3 av and 5–7 ad; pv bare; abdomen not slender (Fig. 3E, F). — Terminalia: tergites 6–8 reduced to pairs of lateral plates; spiracles 6 and 7 situated on posterior half of segment 6; sternite 6 and 7 long and narrow, bearing a pair of long and few shorter setae posteriorly; sternite 8 represented by a pair of small plates, each bearing 5 setae; epiproct trapezoid, with a long distal pair of setulae; hypoproct triangular covered by setulae; cerci setulose, twice longer than epiproct; three round spermathecae (Figs 4E, F; 5C–F).
Deliasanctijacobi (Bigot, 1885). SEM micrographs: Male. A aedeagus and associated structures, lateral view (phallapodema curved by technical artefacts). B detailed pregonite and postgonite, lateral view. Female. C ovipositor, dorsal view. D ovipositor, detailed epiproct, dorsal view. E ovipositor, ventral view. F ovipositor, detailed hypoproct, ventral view. Abbreviations: cerc – cercus; distph – distiphallus; epiph – epiphallus; epiprct – epiproct; hyprct – hypoproct; pgt – postgonite; phapod – phallapodema; pregt – pregonite; st – sternite; tg – tergite.
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The female of D.sanctijacobi is morphologically indistinguishable from D.platura. Their identity must be confirmed by DNA barcoding. The ultrastructural morphology of male and female genitalia revealed a high similarity between the species. No difference was observed in the SEM images of D.sanctijacobi presented here (Fig. 3) and the images of D.platura presented by Wang et al. (2014), except that the D.sanctijacobi epiphallus is twice as long as that of D.platura (Fig. 3B).
Life history.
According to the label information, some specimens were found in soy, onion and broccoli. Here, we report some larvae feeding on the roots of broccoli (BrassicaoleraceaL.var.italica (Brassicaceae).
Distribution.
Alaska (Cold Bay and Unalakleet), Argentina (Jujuy, Tucumán, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Mendoza, Neuquén and Río Negro), Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Chile (Juan Fernández Islands, Los Lagos, Valparaíso and Araucanía), Peru (Cuzco) and Uruguay.
Material examined.
ARGENTINA: La Martona, Prov. B. aires, xi.1957, H. S. Lopes, 1♂ and 3♀♀, (MNRJ); BRAZIL: Paraná: Cambé, 29.ix.1981, Hamada, 2♂♂ and 3♀♀ (DZUP); Campo do Tenente, 19.x.1985, [no col.], 1♂ and 4♀♀; Castro, 11.v.1961, N. L. Marston, 1♀; Colombo, BR476, KM20, 01.x.1986, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, 1♂ and 3♀♀; same locality and collector: 01.xi.1986, 3♂♂; 01.xii.1986, 2♂♂; 02.ix.1986, 3♂♂ and 35 ♀♀; 02.x.1986, 4♂♂ and 2♀♀; 02.xi.1986, 5♂♂; 02.xii.1986, 1♂; 03.ix.1986, 6♂♂ and 7♀♀; 03.viii.1986, 1♂; 03.x.1986, 6♂♂ and 19♀♀; 03.xi.1986, 7♂♂ and 2♀♀; 04.ix.1986, 13♂♂ and 45♀♀; 04.viii.1986, 1♂; 04.x.1986, 4♂♂ and 10♀♀; 04.xi.1986, 4♂♂ and 1♀; 05.ix.1986, 1♀; 05.x.1986, 7♂♂ and 6♀♀; 06.viii.1986, 2♂♂; 08.xi.1981, B. B. Santos, 2♀♀ (DZUP); Curitiba, 19.x.1982, R. Misiuta, 1♂; same locality: 29.xi.1970, P. Moure, 1♂; 19.i.1984, M.L. Pilato Silva & A.C. Saad, onion decay, 1♀; Curitiba, C. B. Jesus, x.1980, 1♂ and 1♀; same locality and collector: i.1981, 1♂ and 3♀♀; ii.1981, 1♀; iv.1981, 2♀♀; v.1981, 1♀; vii, 1980, 1♀; x.1980, 1♂ and 1♀; xii.1980, 4♀ (DZUP); Curitiba, Uberaba, Imbiriba [col.], 21.i.1976, 1♂ (DZUP); Guarapuava, Est. Águas Sta. Clara, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, 01.ix.1986, 1♂; 01.x.1986, 1♂ and 3♀♀; 01.xi.1986, 6♂♂ and 8♀♀; 02.ix.1986, 31♂♂ and 28♀♀; 02.x.1986, 17♂♂ and 2♀♀; 02.xi.1986, 1♂ and 2♀♀; 02.xii.1986, 1♀; 03.ix.1986, 51♂♂ and 16♀♀; 03.viii.1986, 24♂♂ and 16♀♀; 03.x.1986, 6♂♂ and 2♀♀; 03.xi.1986, 4♂♂ and 1♀; 03.xii.1986, 1♀; 04.ix.1986, 2♂♂; 04.viii.1986, 1♂ and 14♀♀; 04.x.1986, 1♂ and 4♀♀; 04.xi.1986, 3♂♂ and 2♀♀; 05.ix.1986, 8♀♀; 05.viii.1986, 31♂♂ and 25♀♀; 05.x.1986, 8♂♂ and 10♀♀; 06.ix.1986, 12♂♂ and 3♀♀; 06.vii.1986, 5♂♂; 06.viii.1986, 31♂♂ and 14♀♀; 06.x.1986, 1♂; 07.viii.1986, 14♂♂ and 4♀♀; 25.viii.1986, 1♀; 30.xi.1986, 2♂♂ and 1♀; 31.x.1986, 2♂♂ and 3♀♀ (DZUP); Jundiaí do Sul, Fazenda Monte Verde, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, 04.x.1986, 1♂ (DZUP); Lapa, 24.x.1981, E. Silveira, in soy, 3♂♂ and 1♀ (DZUP); Palmas, Refúgio de Vida Silvestre dos Campos de Palmas, Cerro Chato, Adriana C. Pereira, malaise trap, 09.ix.2014, 4♂♂ and 4♀♀ (DZUP); Palmas, Refúgio de Vida Silvestre dos Campos de Palmas, Pinus area, Adriana C. Pereira, malaise trap, 21.ix.2012, 4♂♂ and 4♀♀ (DZUP); Ponta Grossa, 02.xii.1986, [no collector], 6♂♂ and 5♀♀ (DZUP); Ponta Grossa, Vila Velha, Reserva IAPAR BR376, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, 01.xi.1986, 6♂♂ and 2♀♀; same locality and collector: 02.xi.1986, 14♂♂ and 6♀♀; 03.viii.1986, 8♂♂; 03.xi.1986, 2♂♂; 04.viii.1986, 1♂; 04.xi.1986, 4♂♂; 05.viii.1986, 1♂; 10.xi.1986, 1♀; 31.x.1986, 64♂♂ and 66♀♀; 01.xii.1986, 1♂ and 2♀♀; 02.x.1986, 1♂ and 1♀; 04.x.1986, 1♂ and 3♀♀; 05.ix.1986, 3♂♂ (DZUP); Ponta Grossa, Vila Velha (IAPAR), Ganho & Marinoni, malaise, 04.x.1999, 2♂♂; 06.ix.1999, 1♀; 08.xi.1999, 2♂♂; 11.x.1999, 1♂ and 1♀; 20.ix.1999, 1♂ and 1♀; 22.xi.1999, 2♂♂; 27.ix.1999, 1♀; 28.viii.2000, 3♂♂ and 3♀♀; 29.xi.1999, 1♂ (DZUP); S. Antonio da Platina, N. Papavero, vi.1965, 1♀ (DZUP); S. José dos Pinhais, Serra do Mar Br277, Km 54, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, 01.x.1986, 2♀♀; same locality and collector: 01.xi.1986, 6♂♂ and 5♀♀; 01.xii.1986, 2♂♂ and 2♀♀; 02.x.1986, 2♀♀; 02.xi.1986, 7♂♂ and 2♀♀; 02.xii.1986, 8♂♂ and 8♀♀; 03.viii.1986, 1♂; 03.x.1986, 6♂♂ and 2♀♀; 03.xii.1986, 1♂ and 1♀; 04.ix.1986, 1♂; 04.viii.1986, 1♀; 04.xi.1986, 11♂♂ and 3♀♀; 05.viii.1986, 1♀; 05.x.1986, 2♂♂ and 1♀; 29.xi.1986, 14♂♂ and 4♀♀; 31.x.1986, 10♂♂ and 4♀♀; 17–24.ix.1984, 1♀; 21–27.viii.1984, 2♂♂ and 1♀; 24.ix–01.x.1984, 1♀ (DZUP); União da Vitória, in broccoli, T. M. Jarek, 25.viii.2017, 3♂♂ and 1♀ (DZUP); Rio Grande do Sul: Arroio Grande, Distrito Mauá, 04.x.2002, R. F. Krüger, malaise trap, 1♂ (DZUP); Canela, 12–16.i.1984, Hoffmann, M., malaise trap, 1♀ (DZUP); Quaraí, Estância S. Roberto, J. R. Cure, 19–20.xi.1985, 1♂ and 4♀♀; same locality and collector: 22.xi.1985, 1♀; 21.xi.1985, 2♂♂ and 6♀♀ (DZUP); Santa Catarina: Ituporanga, 13.x.1988, M. J. Carissimi, 3♂♂ (DZUP); Ituporanga, 20.ix.1978, O. Nakano, 2♂♂ and 3♀♀ (DZUP); Lages, 01.viii.2012, Rosa, J. M. da, 5♂♂ and 4♀♀ (DZUP); Lages, 10.xii.1984, H. Kalvelage, 2♂♂ and 2♀♀ (DZUP); Nova Teutônia, 300–500 m, Fritz Plaumann, x.1967, 1♂ and 3♀♀; same locality and collector: xi.1967, 4♂♂ and 1♀ (DZUP); São Joaquim, Margem Rio Lava-tudo, 1191m, 02.xi.2006, A.J.C. Aguiar, A. Martins, L.R.R. Faria Jr., 1♂; São Joaquim, Pericó, 1174 m, 02.xi.2006, A.J.C. Aguiar, A. Martins, L.R.R. Faria Jr., 1♂ and 2♀♀ (DZUP); CHILE: Angol, Malleco, 16–21.xi.1970, T. Cekalovic, malaise trap, 2♂♂ and 1♀; same locality and collector: 23–28.xi.1970, 1♂ and 1♀ (DZUP); PERU: Cuzco: Carretera Manum dirt side road, ravine, WPB 34, 3296 m, A. L. Norrbom, G. J. Steck & B. D. Sutton, 28.i.2013, 1♂ (USNM); URUGUAY: Colonia, La Estanzuela, S. Laroca, 27.i.1992, 1♂ (DZUP); Montevideo, Parker Berry Silveira, 5.viii.1943, 1♂ (MNRJ).
3.5. Damage on crops
We report the first occurrence of the Brassica root fly, Deliasanctijacobi, larvae feeding on cultivated Brassica species in Brazil. This potential pest was observed in August and September of 2017 in União da Vitória (–26.212381; –51.077950), Paraná, southern Brazil. The specimens were collected from broccoli roots (BrassicaoleraceaL.var.italica (Brassicaceae).
3.6. Distribution
The type-locality of D.sanctijacobi and other localities lacking specific information were not used in assembling the distributional map. The Hamity and Roman (1987) localities (Córdoba, Cuyo, Jujuy, Santa Fé and Tucumán) were estimated by placement in each state center. The map was assembled using 48 localities, including 30 new records. In addition to new records from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the first records from Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul) and Peru (Cuzco) are shown (Fig. 6). Specimens from DZUP and MNRJ were analyzed, and a large number of them had been misidentified as D.platura instead D.sanctijacobi; therefore, all D.platura records in South America require review.
Geographic distribution of Deliasanctijacobi (Bigot, 1885). Symbols: white circle – new records; black circle – literature records.
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The 48 locations indicated a distribution restricted to the cold regions of South America. The lower latitude area corresponds to Cuzco (Peru), with an altitude of 3296 m. We also present one new record each for Argentina and Chile, three new records for Uruguay and 25 new records for southern Brazil, indicating a wide distribution in this Brazilian region of agricultural importance (Fig. 6). Some changes in the Delia identification presented by Gomes et al. (2018; 2019) have resulted from this work. We reanalyzed the specimens of Gomes et al. (2018) from Juan Fernández Archipelago previously identified as D.platura and updated the identification to D.sanctijacobi. Also, we reanalyzed the specimens of Gomes et al. (2019) checklist (identified as Delia sp.) from Palmas (Paraná, Brazil) and updated the identification as Deliasanctijacobi.
4. Discussion
4.1. DNA Barcode analysis
COI sequences analyses using NJ and ML indicated that D.sanctijacobi is closely related to D.florilega and D.platura (interspecific distances of 0.048 and 0.055, respectively). The topology using NJ was consistent with the analysis of Savage et al. (2016). The only difference among the topologies constructed with NJ and ML was for D.florilega (Fig. 1, blue box), which was recovered as sister group of D.platura (Fig. 1, violet box) + D.sanctijacobi (Fig. 1, red box) on ML and recovered as sister group of D.antiqua (Fig. 1, green box) on NJ. In both analyses, D.sanctijacobi was recovered as sister group of D.platura with bootstrap values of 39 and 40 in NJ and ML, respectively (Fig. 1). The bootstrap values for phylogenetic relationships among D.florilega, D.platura and D.sanctijacobi are low (less than 47), but all species clusters had bootstrap values of 100. The NJ topology is the same as obtained by Savage et al. (2016).
The pairwise distance values from the K2P distance model suggest that D.sanctijacobi is a valid species, as indicated by high interspecific divergence (0.048-0.090) among other species of the genus. The high intraspecific distance of D.platura (0.047) could be interpreted as evidence that we are dealing with a species complex (Table 2), as also indicated by Heyden et al. (2020).
4.2. Damage on crops
The first occurrence of Brassica root flies, Deliasanctijacobi, feeding on cultivated Brassica species in Brazil and the resulting damage was observed in 2017; however, our review of specimens from the DZUP and MNRJ collections indicated that this species has occurred in Brazil at least since 1961, as indicated by a male specimen from Castro (Paraná, Brazil), and deposited in DZUP. This specimen is probably a neotropical species often misidentified as D.platura. The infested plants showed reduced growth due to damage of the stem base. Due to damage to the vascular system, the plants wilt, and if they are severely attacked, they can die. Damage symptoms were more evident at times of higher temperature and insolation.
4.3. Distribution
Deliasanctijacobi is native to southern South America and was described based on two males from Chile; however, more specific geographic information about the type-locality is absent (Bigot 1885). Few authors reported distributional information about D.sanctijacobi, and extant distributional knowledge was restricted to Argentina (Córdoba, Jujuy, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Fe, Tucumán); Chile (Araucanía, Juan Fernández Islands, Los Lagos and Valparaíso) and Uruguay (Montevideo) (Malloch 1934; Ruffinelli and Carbonell 1954; Hennig 1955; 1957; Hamity and Roman 1987; Griffiths 1993). Also, D.sanctijacobi has been found in coastal locations in western Alaska (Cold Bay and Unalakleet), suspected to have been introduced with Chilean vegetables (Griffiths 1993).
5. Conclusions
New morphological and molecular data for Deliasanctijacobi allow the appropriate identification of this economically important species. D.sanctijacobi larvae can cause severe damage to cruciferous crops. Although the potato worm was recorded as new to Brazil in 2017, our review of specimens from collections indicates this species has occurred in several regions of South America for at least five decades, and it is probably an endemic neotropical species of Delia. For this reason, previous South American records of D.platura, which is a species complex, should be reviewed. The correct identification and updating of D.sanctijacobi distribution in South America are important to infestation control of this species in crops.
6. Authors’ contributions
LRPG wrote the main text, reviewed the specimens deposited in the collections, prepared the images, extracted, amplified and analysed the COI sequences. MACZ and TMJ collected the specimens. MCVCR helped with extraction and amplification of DNA sequences. CJBC helped with the COI sequence analysis and taxonomy. All authors contributed to improve the manuscript and approved the final manuscript.
7. Acknowledgements
The authors are very grateful to Allen Norrbom (USNM) for sending us part of specimens used in this contribution. We thank Taxonline – Rede Paranaense de Coleções Biológicas (UFPR) for specimen photographs and Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica (UFPR) for Scanning electronic microscope (SEM) images. Thanks to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the provided support (CJBC project # 309873/2016–9, LRPG project # 141030/2018–6). Thanks to “Divisão de Vigilância Prevenção e Controle de Pragas-DPCP, Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento” (MAPA) for permits (project # 21034.009554/2019-73). Wiley Services edited the manuscript.
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