Tephritis arnicae

Tephritis arnicae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus: Tephritis
Species: T. arnicae
Binomial name
Tephritis arnicae
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Trypeta flavicauda Meigen, 1826
  • Trypeta arnicivora Loew, 1844
  • Trypeta eggeri Frauenfeld, 1857]
  • Tephritis melanotrichota Hendel, 1903

Tephritis arnicae is a picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae,[1] which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland).

The larvae feed in the flower-heads of species of Arnica montana,[2] Doronicum grandiflorum, D. austriacum and D. hungaricum.[3][4]

References

  1. Myers, P. (2015). "Tephritis arnicae: Classification". Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  2. "Heilpflanzen hydroponisch: Arnica montana". Hanf Journal Online (in German). 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  3. Korneyev S. V., Mohamadzade Namin S,. Khaganinia S., Zarghani E. 2015. Palearctic species of the genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae) associated with plants of the tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) — Zootaxa: 4007(2) 207–216.
  4. Merz, B. (1994). Diptera: Tephritidae. Insecta Helvetica Fauna, HGE press, Geneva, 10, 198 pp.


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