Terellia ceratocera

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Terellia ceratocera
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Terellia ceratocera. Dorsal view
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Terelliini
Genus: Terellia
Species:
T. ceratocera
Binomial name
Terellia ceratocera
Hendel, 1913 [1]
Synonyms

Terellia ceratocera is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. [3]

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Distribution

This species can be found from Britain up to western Siberia and central Europe (Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czech Republic, Denmark, East European Russia, eastern Palearctic realm, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands), Balkans, Turkey and Kazakhstan. [4] [5]

Description

Terellia ceratocera can reach a wing length of 4.3–6.4 millimetres (0.17–0.25 in). [6] These fruit flies have frons, thorax and legs yellow. Eyes are blue-green. The anterior portion of the mesonotum bears a dull black mark. Katepistemum shows a black triangular mark. Pedicel of the males is greatly enlarged. The abdomen is dark orange with paired black marks on tergites 4 and 5. Wings bear four distinct and straight dark bands. [6] [7]

Biolib

These flies are monophagous, feeding only on Asteraceae. [8] In fact larvae of this species lives only in the capitulum of Centaurea scabiosa and Centaurea alpestris . They pupate in the soil. From the eggs laid one year may develop adults in the same year or in the spring of the following year. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Hendel, Friedrich (1913). "Acalyptrate Musciden (Dipt.) II. In , H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute". Supplementa Entomologica. 2: 77–112.
  2. ↑ Fabricius, J.C. (1794). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4. Hafniae [=Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft. pp. [6] + 472 + [5] pp.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ "Terellia (Cerajocera) ceratocera (Hendel, 1913) | Fauna Europaea". fauna-eu.org.
  6. 1 2 3 I.M. White Tephritids Flies HANDBOOKS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BRITISH INSECTS Vol 10, Part 5a
  7. 1 2 Murat KÜTÜK, Mehmet YARAN The fauna and systematic of the genus Terellia R-D., 1830 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a key to the species of Terellia in Turkey
  8. ↑ "Terellia ceratocera – Plant Parasites of Europe".


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