Biology:Terellia tussilaginis

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Short description: Species of fly

Terellia tussilaginis
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Terellia tussilaginis, female with ovipositor
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Male
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Terelliini
Genus: Terellia
Species:
T. tussilaginis
Binomial name
Terellia tussilaginis
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Musca lappae Cederhielm, 1798[2]
  • Musca tussilaginis Fabricius, 1775[1]
  • Tephrytis impunctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[3]
  • Trupanea acanthi Schrank, 1803[4]
  • Trupanea tanaceti Schrank, 1803[4]

Terellia tussilaginis, the gall fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[5]

Distribution

This species is present in most of Europe, in European Russia and in the East Palearctic ecozone.[6][7]

Habitat

These flies inhabit meadows, gardens and where the host plants grow.

Description

Mating couple

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

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fabricius, J.C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus.. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig]: Kortii. pp. [32] + 832. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/5/mode/1up. Retrieved 20 February 2021. 
  2. ↑ Cederhjelm (1798). I. . Favnae Ingricae Prodromvs ... .. Lipsiae [=Leipzig].: Iohann. Freid. Hartknoch. pp. xviii + 348 pp., 3 pls. 
  3. ↑ 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up. Retrieved 15 July 2018. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. 
  5. ↑ Biolib
  6. ↑ Fauna europaea
  7. ↑ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Nature Spot
  9. ↑ Korneyev, V.A. (2003). "New and little-known Tephritidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) from Europe". Vestnik Zoologii 37 (3): 3–12, 101. http://www.v-zool.kiev.ua/pdfs/2003/3/01.pdf. Retrieved 26 April 2021. 
  10. ↑ White, Ian. M. (1988). "Tephritid Flies". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects (London: Royal Entomological Society) 10 (Pt 5a): 1–134. 
  11. ↑ iNaturalist

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