Peter Ridland

Genome-wide SNPs of vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza sativae: Insights into the recent Australian invasion

Xuefen Xu, Thomas L Schmidt, Jiaxin Liang, Peter M Ridland, Jessica Chung, Qiong Yang, Moshe E Jasper, Paul A Umina, Wanxue Liu, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2022  |  EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS

Liriomyza sativae, the vegetable leafminer, is an important agricultural pest originally from the Americas, which has now colonize..

Identification of two leafminer parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Neochrysocharis formosa and Proacrias sp. from Australia, with both showing thelytoky and infection by Rickettsia

Xuefen Xu, Ary A Hoffmann, Paul A Umina, Marianne P Coquilleau, Alex Gill, Peter M Ridland

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY

Liriomyza huidobrensis, L. sativae and L. trifolii are polyphagous agromyzid leafminers that have recently arrived in Australia, p..

High Incidence of Related Wolbachia across Unrelated Leaf-Mining Diptera

Xuefen Xu, Peter M Ridland, Paul A Umina, Alex Gill, Perran A Ross, Elia Pirtle, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2021  |  INSECTS

The maternally inherited endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, plays an important role in the ecology and evolution of many of its ho..

Molecular Identification of Leafmining Flies From Australia Including New Liriomyza Outbreaks

Xuefen Xu, Marianne P Coquilleau, Peter M Ridland, Paul A Umina, Qiong Yang, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Some leafmining fly species are pests of agricultural and ornamental plants but they also include many species with little economi..

Variation in sex ratio of the leafminer Phytomyza plantaginis Goureau (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Australia

Marianne P Coquilleau, Xuefen Xu, Peter M Ridland, Paul A Umina, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY

Parthenogenetic reproduction has only previously been demonstrated in two species of agromyzid leafminer flies (Diptera: Agromyzid..

Biology, ecology and management of Diuraphis noxia (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Australia

Samantha Ward, Maarten van Helden, Thomas Heddle, Peter M Ridland, Elia Pirtle, Paul A Umina

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko ex Kurdjumov), is one of the world's most economically important pests of grai..

Potential for biological control of the vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza sativae (Diptera: Agromyzidae), in Australia with parasitoid wasps

Peter M Ridland, Paul A Umina, Elia Pirtle, Ary A Hoffmann

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY

The vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, poses a risk to vegetable and nursery production in mainland Australia since..