Orellia falcata

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Orellia falcata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Terelliini
Genus: Orellia
Species:
O. falcata
Binomial name
Orellia falcata
Synonyms

Orellia falcata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. [4]

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Distribution

This species is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, and in the Near East. [5]

Description

Orellia falcata can reach a length of 5–8.5 millimetres (0.20–0.33 in). Wings have characteristic dark bands, the second and third bands are not fused along the anterior alar margin. Eyes are bright green. Head is yellow, while thorax and abdomen are pale green. Scutellum shows four black spots at the basis of setae. Cephalic and thoracic setae are black. [6] [7]

Biology

Adults can be found from May to July. Females lay their eggs in holes on the host plant. Larvae live in root crown of Tragopogon pratensis . [6] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Macquart, P.J.M. (1835). Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Diptères. Tome deuxieme. Paris: Roret. pp. 703 or 710 pp., 12 pls. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Fauna europaea
  6. 1 2 George C. Steyskal>Keys to The Insects of The European Part of The USSR
  7. ↑ Les insectes
  8. ↑ Naturfuhrer on line
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