Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840)

Mazzon, Luca, Whitmore, Daniel, Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Korneyev, Valery A., 2021, New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 69351-69351 : 69351

Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L. Mazzon; individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry; Taxon: scientificName: Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Eurasimona ; specificEpithet: stigma; scientificNameAuthorship: (Loew, 1840); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Veneto Region; county: Padova Province ; locality: Euganean Hills ; verbatimElevation: 250 m; verbatimCoordinates: 45°19'16.08"N 11°42'20.06"E; decimalLatitude: 45.3211; decimalLongitude: 11.7055; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2006; Event: samplingProtocol: mouth aspirator; eventDate: 14/06/2006; habitat: edge of forest, on Achillea flowers; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine ( Korneyev and White 1991, Merz and Korneyev 2011); Russia, east to southern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk); Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Kyrghyzstan ( Korneyev and White 1991); Iran ( Zarghani et al. 2016). The species (Fig. 1 a) is here recorded as new to Italy.

Biology

The biology of E. stigma is poorly known. The flies are said to have been reared from Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. ( Roser 1840, as " Chrysanthemum leucanthemum "), Achillea millefolium L. ( Loew 1862: 68), Anthemis arvensis L. ( Korneyev et al. 2005; forming small non-lignified galls in a single flower head), A. cotula L. ( Hendel 1927) and Tanacetum vulgare L. ( Merz 1994), but there are no comprehensive rearing data or descriptions of its biology.