Tephritis arnicae

Tephritis arnicae
Tephritis arnicae female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Subfamily:	Tephritinae
Tribe:	Tephritini
Genus:	Tephritis
Species:	T. arnicae
Binomial name
Tephritis arnicae (Linnaeus, 1758)
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]}

It is found in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, south to France, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
4. Hendel, F (1903). "Drei neue boreale Muscidae acalyptratae". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 53: 383–385. 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". Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 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". Hanf Journal Online (in German). 2010-03-08. 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.