Myopites longirostris (Loew, 1846)

El Harym, Y., Belqat, B. & Korneyev, V. A., 2020, The Fruit Flies Of Morocco: New Records Of The Tephritinae (Diptera, Tephritidae), Zoodiversity 54 (6), pp. 439-452 : 444-445

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15407/zoo2020.06.439

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:111D9D5F-A7E8-47EA-98D6-CCB4E6FA65C7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6421797

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC308793-FFE2-FF85-FF43-FDAAFE3EFE50

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Myopites longirostris (Loew, 1846)
status

 

Myopites longirostris (Loew, 1846) View in CoL ( figs 3–4 View Fig View Fig )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: Oued Tahaddart, reared from Limbarda crithmoides longifolia , 26.08.2019, 4 ♀; 29.01.2020, 1 ♀; 03.02.2020, 2 Ơ, 2 ♀; 11.02.2020, 1 Ơ, 3 ♀; 17.02.2020, 3 Ơ; 23.02.2020, 1 Ơ, 26.02.2020, 1 ♀; 1 ♀ ; 02.03.2020, 1 ♀ (El Harym); Douar Kouf, reared from Pulicaria odora , 21.05.2019, 3 Ơ, 3 ♀; 22.05.2019, 23 Ơ, 8 ♀; 23.05.2019; 37 Ơ, 36 ♀, 27.05.2019, 106 Ơ, 153 ♀ (El Harym); Mkhinak, net sweeping, 09.06.2019, 1 ♀ (El Harym).

Host plants. In this study specimens were reared from Limbarda crithmoides subsp. longifolia (Arcang.) Greuter ( fig. 3 View Fig ) and Pulicaria odora (new host plant) ( fig. 4 View Fig ). Larvae induce almost woody galls in receptacles of Limbarda crithmoides (L.) Dumort ( Hendel, 1927; Séguy, 1934).

Distribution. Bulgaria, Croatia, France (mainland), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Spain (Balearic Is.), United Kingdom; Morocco (first record). First record from North Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Myopites

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