Terellia serratulae

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Terellia serratulae
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Terellia serratulae. Male on a Cirsium flowerhead
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Terellia serratulae. Female with ovipositor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Terelliini
Genus: Terellia
Species:
T. serratulae
Binomial name
Terellia serratulae
Synonyms

Terellia serratulae is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. [5]

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Description

Terellia serratulae can reach a length of about 4–6 millimetres (0.16–0.24 in). This bluish clear-winged fruit fly has a hairy abdomen with a chequered black pattern. The apex of the antennae is reddish or yellow-orange. In the females the length of the ovopositor corresponds approximately to the length of the last three abdominal segments (tergites). [6] [7]

The females deposit eggs into the opened thistle flowerheads. The young larvae start feeding on the achenes of thistles (mainly Cirsium and Carduus species), but they do not induce gall-forming. They develop in the flower-heads (capitulum) of thistles in a cocoon of silk and plant hairs (pappus). This univoltine species overwinters in the larval stage. Adults are on the wing from July to September. [8]

Distribution and habitat

This species can be found around thistles in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East, and in North Africa. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Loew, H. (1844). "Kritische Untersuchung der europäische n Arten des Genus Trypeta Meig". Z. Ent. (Germar). 5: 312–437.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1824). Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus Analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniens: maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae,eregio typoguapheo scholarum. pp. 1–60. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Manuel, B.E. (1811). Mouche. [Concl.] Pp. 1-45. In Olivier, G. A., Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Volume 8, Mou-Pao. 722 pp. In Societe de Gens de Lettres, de Savants et d'Artistes, Encyclopedie Methodique. ,. Paris: Agasse.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Nature Spot
  7. ↑ Insecten Box
  8. ↑ H Michaelis Competition of Urophora Stylata F. and Terellia Serratulae L. (Dipt., Tephritidae) in the Flowerheads of Cirsium Vulgare
  9. ↑ Fauna Europaea


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