Oedosphenella auriella ( Munro 1939 )

Penado, Andreia, Smit, John, Aguiar, António Franquinho, Cravo, Délia, Rego, Carla, Santos, Renata & Boieiro, Mário, 2020, The fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) of the Madeira archipelago with the description of a new Oedosphenella Frey, Zootaxa 4810 (3), pp. 559-575 : 567

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.11
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A5ECB45-189F-47D3-9300-E19DF643EBCA
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332979
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scientific name	Oedosphenella auriella ( Munro 1939 )
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Oedosphenella auriella ( Munro 1939) View in CoL

(Figs 1A, 1E)

Oedaspis auriella Munro 1939: 45 View in CoL ; Cogan & Munro 1980: 540; Oedosphenella auriella: Freidberg & Kaplan 1992: 90 View in CoL ; Norrbom et al. 1999: 177.

Material examined. Holotype ♂: Original labels: “M. / 519”, “ S.Afr. / Kloof, NP. / Apr. 1935 / W.E. Marriott. ”, “ Holotype. / Oedaspis / auriella, Mro. / det. HKMunro 1939”, “979” ( SANC).

This species is only known from South Africa. Larvae, as well as puparia were found in spindle-shaped galls on the thin stems of a Senecio sp. ( Munro 1939).