Cecidochares connexa (Macquart, 1848)

Korneyev, S. V., Hauser, M., Borkent, C., Maples, B. K., Roubtsova, T. V., Zangpo, T., Dorji, S., Chophel, S., Dorji, N., Tsomo, Dendup, U., Dawa, K., Dorji, L., Dhimal, C. Mani, Kinley, R., Dorji, U., Dema, Y., Korneyev, V. A. & Gaimari, S. D., 2023, The Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) In Bhutan: New Faunistic Records And Compendium Of Fauna, Zoodiversity 57 (2), pp. 93-124 : 114

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15407/zoo2023.02.093UDC595.773.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:41477A9B-2BA6-4E2E-8B68-5D8AFF9F74BA
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cecidochares connexa (Macquart, 1848)
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Cecidochares connexa (Macquart, 1848) View in CoL View at ENA

Material. Wangdue Phodrang, 3.5 km E Bajo , 27.486° N, 89.936° E, 1480 m, 17– 21.08.2017, hand collecting, 1 ♀ (C. Borkent) FFPBT052 ( CSCA18 About CSCA L220); Malaise trap, 1 ♀ ( BHNPPC) FFPBT050 ( CSCA18 About CSCA L223) GoogleMaps .

Host plants. Chromolaena odorata (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. ( Norrbom, 2022)

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela; introduced to Ghana, Guam, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Thailand ( Norrbom, 2022); Bhutan (first record).

Note. Introduced into various countries in the Afrotropical, Australasian and Oriental Regions as an agent to control the “triffid weed” Chromolaena odorata .

Tephritinae : Tephritini