Terellia luteola (Wiedemann, 1830)

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 : 449

Terellia luteola (Wiedemann, 1830) ( figs 10 , a–e)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: Bakrim (sweeping), 28.04.2019, 1 Ơ, 1 ♀ (El Harym); reared from Carthamus lanatus , 20.05.2019, 6 Ơ, 3 ♀ (El Harym); Aforidane (sweeping), 26.07.2020, 1 Ơ, 1 ♀; Aïn Siyed (sweeping), 26.07.2020, 1 ♀ (El Harym).

Host plants. Carthamus glaucus M.Bieb., C. lanatus L., C. syriacus (Boiss.) Čelak. , C. tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornmand , C. tinctorius (Boiss) ( Kugler & Freidberg 1975; Knio et al. 2002). Record of Onopordum acanthium L. ( Kütük & Varol, 2006) obviously is a mistake. In this study, it was reared from Carthamus lanatus L. (fig. 13).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Egypt (type locality); Greece, Italy, Spain; Israel; Tunisia ( Norrbom et al., 1999); Lebanon ( Knio et al. 2002), Turkey ( Kütük & Yaran, 2011), Iran ( Gharajedaghi et al. 2012; Mohamadzade Namin & Korneyev, 2016).

Figures

Fig. 10. Terellia luteola (a–e) and T. oasis (f–g): a–b, f — female, c–d — male (a, c — habitus, lateral view; b, d, f — dorsal view), e — host plant (Carthamus lanatus); g — wing.