Tephritis bardanae

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Tephritis bardanae
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Tephritis bardanae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephritini
Genus: Tephritis
Species:
T. bardanae
Binomial name
Tephritis bardanae
(Schrank, 1803) [1]
Synonyms

Tephritis bardanae is a picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae, which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland). [4]

Contents

The larvae feed in the flower-heads (capitula) of species of Arctium (burdocks), causing galls to form. [5]

The larvae pupates in autumn, forming a black puparium. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
  3. 1 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.
  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. 1 2 Margaret Redfern; Peter Shirley; Michael Bloxham (2011). British Plant Galls (2 ed.). Field Studies Council. ISBN   978-1-85153-284-1.

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