| Tephritis praecox | |
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| Tephritis praecox | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Tephritini |
| Genus: | Tephritis |
| Species: | T. praecox |
| Binomial name | |
| Tephritis praecox | |
| Synonyms | |
Tephritis praecox is a species is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae found across Europe. [3]
The adult fly is grey-brown in colour with a wing length measuring between 1.8–3.2 mm. The wings are hyaline and distinctively marked between different species of this genus. [4]
T. praecox is associated with several host plants including Calendula arvensis , Chrysanthemum sp., Filago gallica , and Senecio . When mating, male flies wait near the capitulum of their chosen flower bud. When a female appears they begin a mating dance during which the male holds his wings flat and then opens them alternately. [4] The larvae develops in the seed head.
T. praecox can be found across central and western Europe. [5] It was first noted from Britain in 1937 on the basis of a single female found in Suffolk in 1907. [6]
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