Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844)

Material examined. Madeira: Ponta de São Lourenço (1 female, 2 males); Desertas: Castanheira (1 female, 3 males) .

Remarks. Tephritis praecox can be found from Europe to Central Asia (Mohamadzade Namin & Rasoulian 2010; Korneyev & Klasa 2016). It is a specialist species that breeds in plants of genus Calendula, such as the Madeiran endemic C. maderensis (Smit 2006; Mohamadzade Namin & Rasoulian 2010).Although uncommon in Madeira archipelago, this species can be found in a wide range of habitats in the Canary Islands (Merz 1992). The species is here reported for the first time from Desertas.