Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992

Korneyev, S. V. & Klasa, A., 2016, New Records And A Revised Checklist Of Fruit Flies Of The Genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae) From Ukraine, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (3), pp. 219-224 : 221

Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992 ( fig. 3 )

M a t e r i a l. Transcarpatian Region, Uzhans’kyi National Park, Beskydy (Bieszczady) Mts.: 49.034 N 22.808 E, Kinchyk Bukovs’ky, 1120 m a. s. l., 6.07.2004, 1 Ơ, 1 ǫ; 1200–1245 m a. s. l., 20.06.2005, 2 Ơ, 2 ǫ; 1130 m a. s. l., 25.06.2008, 4 Ơ, 2 ǫ, all on alpine grassland (A. Klasa) ( OPN; AKC) .

Larvae develop in the flower heads of Crepis conyzifolia (Gouan) A. Kern. ( Merz, 1994) , C. sibirica L., and C. pannonica (Jacq.) K. Koch. (see: Korneyev, 2016 b for references).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Russia (Central, East; West Siberia, incl. Altai), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan ( Korneyev, 2016 b), Poland ( Klasa, Palaczyk 2005). First record from Ukraine.

Figures

Figs 1–10. Tephritis spp., habitus (4, 10), wing (2, 5, 6, 8, 9), female abdomen (1), phallus glans (3), label and specimen (7): 1–2 — T. brachyura; 3 — T. conyzifoliae; 4 — T. crepidis; 5 — T. heliophila; 6 — T. mutabilis, fragment; 7–8 — T. separata, specimen from Slaviansk (ZISP); 9 — T. tanaceti; 10 — T. valida.