First checklist of the fruit flies of Morocco, including new records (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Harym, Younes El
Belqat, Boutaina
ZooKeys
2017
702
137
171
898RV
Insecta
Tephritidae
Terellia
CoL
Animalia
Terellia longicauda
Diptera
1
138
Arthropoda
species
longicauda
New record. Morocco, Rif: Douar Kitane, 4♂♂, 10-VIII-2016- 2♂♂, 3♀♀, 11-VIII-2016- 1♂, 3♀♀, 12-VIII-2016- 1♀, 13-VIII-2016 (reared). First record for Morocco and North Africa.
Host plants. Flower heads of Cynara cardunculusL. (Fig. 6) from which the specimens were reared. Figure 6. Cynara cardunculusL. host plant of Terellia sp. near longicauda.
World distribution. Spain, Canary Islands ( Merz 1992).
Comments. This is an undescribed, cryptic species of the Terellia serratulaeL. complex known to infest Cynara cardunculusL. in Spain and the Canary Islands. The serratula group contains cryptic species, a situation that needs to be resolved, and for which a molecular approach should be adopted (Valery Korneyev, pers. comm.).