Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844)

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 : 564

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.