Biology:Tephritis arnicae

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Short description: Species of fly

Tephritis arnicae
Tephritis arnicae habitus.jpg
Tephritis arnicae female
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephritini
Genus: Tephritis
Species:
T. arnicae
Binomial name
Tephritis arnicae
Synonyms
  • Musca arnicae Linnaeus, 1758
  • Trypeta flavicauda Meigen, 1826[1]
  • Trypeta arnicivora Loew, 1844[2]
  • Trypeta eggeri Frauenfeld, 1857[3]
  • Tephritis melanotrichota Hendel, 1903[4]
  • Tephritis malanotrichota Becker, 1905[5]

Tephritis arnicae is a species of picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae,[6] which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland).[7]

The larvae feed in the flowerheads of species of Arnica montana,[8] Doronicum grandiflorum, D. austriacum and D. hungaricum.[9][10]

Distribution

United Kingdom & Scandinavia, South to France , Bulgaria & Ukraine .

References

  1. Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54. 
  2. Loew, H. (1844). "Kritische Untersuchung der europäische n Arten des Genus Trypeta Meig.". Z. Ent. (Germar) 5: 312–437. 
  3. Frauenfeld, G.R. von (1857). "Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Trypeten nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten". Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 22: 523–557, 1 pl. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6364206#page/569/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 February 2021. 
  4. Hendel, F (1903). "Drei neue boreale Muscidae acalyptratae". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 53: 383–385. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13742881#page/391/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 February 2021. 
  5. Becker, Theodor (1905). Cyclorrhapha Schizophora: Holometopa. In Becker,T., Bezzi, M., Kertesz, K, & Stein, P. (eds.), Katalog der Palaarktischen Dipteren. Vol. 4. Budapest. pp. [i] +1–328. 
  6. Myers, P. (2015). "Tephritis arnicae: Classification". http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Tephritis_arnicae/classification/. Retrieved 2015-11-08. 
  7. 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. 
  8. "Heilpflanzen hydroponisch: Arnica montana" (in German). 2010-03-08. http://www.hanfjournal.de/hajo-website/artikel/2010/sa_grow/s14_sa_grow_10_arnika_montana.php. Retrieved 2015-11-08. 
  9. 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.
  10. Merz, B. (1994). Diptera: Tephritidae. Insecta Helvetica Fauna, HGE press, Geneva, 10, 198 pp.

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