Biology:Aciurina bigeloviae

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Short description: Species of fly

Aciurina bigeloviae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Tribe: Dithrycini
Genus: Aciurina
Species:
A. bigeloviae
Binomial name
Aciurina bigeloviae
(Cockerell, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eurosta bigeloviae Townsend, 1893[2]
  • Trypeta bigeloviae Cockerell, 1890[1]
  • Trypeta bigeloviae var. disrupta Cockerell, 1890[1]
  • Trypeta disrupta Cockerell, 1890[1]

Aciurina bigeloviae is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Aciurina of the family Tephritidae.[3] It induces galls by laying an egg on the bud of a Ericameria nauseosa plant, which forms a gall that the larvae develops within through the fall.[4]

Distribution

Canada , United States .

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cockerell, T.D.A. (1890). "The evolution of insect galls". Entomologist 23: 73–76. 
  2. Townsend, C.H.T. (1893). "A trypetid bred from galls on Bigelovia". The Canadian Entomologist 25: 48–52. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3062067#page/60/mode/1up. Retrieved 11 March 2021. 
  3. Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database.". Myia 9: vii + 524. 
  4. Baine, Quinlyn; Casares, Emily E; Hughes, Daniel W W; Martinson, Vincent G; Martinson, Ellen O (11 December 2023). "Arthropod communities associated with gall-inducing Aciurina bigeloviae and Aciurina trixa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in New Mexico". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. doi:10.1093/aesa/saad037. 

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