Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld 1857)

Zarghani, E., Khaghaninia, S., Namin, S. Mohamadzade, Karimpour, Y. & Korneyev, V. A., 2016, First Records Of The Friut Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) In The Fauna Of Iran, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (2), pp. 123-134 : 125

Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld 1857) ( fig. 2, 3 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. West Azerbaijan Province: Khoy: Zarabad, Mamesh Khan Village 35 km to Khoy [38.80 N, 44.58 E], h = 1796 m, swept from Inula sp. cf. salicina , 21.07.2015, 3 Ơ, 3 ♀ (E. Zarghani) (FAUT; ICHMM); Mazandaran: Demavand Mt. [35.87 N, 52.11 E], h = 2560 m, 10.07.2013, 1 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev) (SIZK).

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s. Head short, labellum elongate, 1–1.5 times as long as flagellomere 1; scutum black, densely yellowish microtrichose; scutellum yellow, with basal scutellar seta based within yellow area; femora yellow; wing hyaline except for yellowish pterostigma; glans of phallus without memranous anterior lobes.

Host plants. Larvae in flower heads of various Inula : Inula hirta , I. oculus-christi , I. ensifolia , I. salicina and I. britannica (see Korneyev & White (1991) for references), inducing soft galls in achenes; larvae and puparia with black posterior end; in Iran, it was collected on Inula sp. cf. salicina L. ( fig. 3 ).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe from northern Spain to European Russia (except British Isles, North and Mediterranean countries) ( Merz & Korneyev, 2004); West Siberia (Tomsk); Kazakhstan ( Korneyev & White, 1999); Iran (first record).

Figures

Fig. 1–6. Flies of the tribe Myopitini (1–2, 4–6): (1, 2, 4 — habitus, left; 5 — head, left, enlarged; 6 — wing): 1 — Eurasimona stigma, ♀; 2 — Inuromaesa maura, ♀, 3 — its host plant, Inula salicina, ♀; 4–6 — Myopites inulaedyssentericae.