Terellia tussilaginis
Terellia tussilaginis | |
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Terellia tussilaginis, female with ovipositor | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Tephritidae |
Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
Tribe: | Terelliini |
Genus: | Terellia |
Species: | T. tussilaginis
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Terellia tussilaginis | |
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Terellia tussilaginis, the gall fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[5]
Distribution
[edit]This species is present in most of Europe, in European Russia and in the East Palearctic ecozone.[6][7]
Habitat
[edit]These flies inhabit meadows, gardens and where the host plants grow.
Description
[edit]Terellia tussilaginis can reach a body length of about 5 millimetres (0.20 in). These fruit flies have a pale green yellow body with distinctive brown banding on its wings.[8] The costal cell is completely hyaline. Katepisternum shows reddish spots. The anterior half of mesonotum is reddish to brown. Tergite 4 is usually black.[9]
Biology
[edit]Adults can be seen from June to August.[8] The larvae live in the flowerheads of Arctium lappa, Arctium minus, Arctium tomentosum and Cirsium vulgare, feeding on them and causing galls to form.[8][10][11]
References
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- ^ Cederhjelm (1798). I. . Favnae Ingricae Prodromvs ... . Lipsiae [=Leipzig].: Iohann. Freid. Hartknoch. pp. xviii + 348 pp., 3 pls.
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b Schrank, F. von P. (1803). Favna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Krull, Landshut. pp. viii + 1–372 pp.volume=3.
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- ^ Fauna europaea
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- ^ a b c Nature Spot
- ^ Korneyev, V.A. (2003). "New and little-known Tephritidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) from Europe" (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii. 37 (3): 3–12, 101. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ White, Ian. M. (1988). "Tephritid Flies". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 10 (Pt 5a). London: Royal Entomological Society: 1–134.
- ^ iNaturalist