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.).