Rhagoletis cerasi ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I. & Korneyev, S. V., 2017, The Carpomyini Fruit Flies Diptera: Tephritidae Of Europe Caucasus And Middle East: New Records Of Pests With Improved Keys, Vestnik Zoologii 51 (6), pp. 453-470 : 464

Rhagoletis cerasi ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( figs 1 , 4 ; 5 , 4 ; 6, 5–6)

Musca cerasi Linnaeus, 1758: 600 ; Trypeta cerasi: Loew, 1844: 361 ; Rhagoletis cerasi: Loew, 1862b: 45 ; Hendel, 1927: 75; Rohdendorf, 1936: 23, 1961: 179; Zaitzev, 1947: 5; Boller & Bush, 1974; Boller et al., 1976; Korneyev, 1983: 12; Kameneva & Korneyev, 1985: 68; White & Elson-Harris, 1992: 353; Merz, 1994: 109, 2001: 92; Mohamadzade & Rasoulian, 2009: 84; Smit, 2010: 130.

Material. Austria: Nickelsdorf , 47.92 N, 17.04 E, on mahaleb cherry, 4.06.2003, 4 Ơ ( V. Korneyev) ; Greece: Koupa NW of Skra, 41.07 N, 22.35 E, h = 700 m, swept from sweet cherry tree, 5.06.2002 (E. Kameneva, S. & V. Korneyev) ; Moldova: Vişniovca , 46.33 N, 28.44 E, 13.08.1988, 1 ♀ ( V. Korneyev) ; Switzerland: Visp: Visperterminen, 1600–1900 m, swept from Lonicera , 24 Ơ, 11 ♀, Leuk , 46.33 N, 7.63 E, swept from Lonicera , 22.07.2004, 28 Ơ, 4 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev) ; Ukraine: Donetsk: Donetsk, at light, 15.06.1992, 1 ♀ (G. Popov); Khmelnytsk: Kamyanets-Podilsky Distr., “Tovtra Verbetska” Botanical Reserve , 14.07.1997, 2 ♀ (O. Gumovsky), Kyiv: Kyiv , 50.467 N, 30.471 E, 1.07.2007, swept from sour cherry tree, 5 Ơ, 4 ♀, Obukhiv , 50.136 N, 30.613 E, on sour cherry, 14.06.1983, ( V. Korneyev); Mykolaiv: Myhiia, 48.00 N, 30.58 E, 21.06.2009, 4 Ơ, idem, swept from Lonicera , 22.06.2009, 23 Ơ, 12 ♀, idem, 23.06.2009, swept from Lonicera and Prunus , 11 Ơ, 8 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev) ( SIZK) .

Distribution. Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Britain I., Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark (mainland), Finland, France (mainland, Corsica), Germany, Greece (mainland, Crete), Hungary, Italy (mainland), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Norway (mainland), Poland, Portugal (mainland), Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Russia (European Territory: Center, East, South), Spain (mainland), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; Asian Russia (Western Siberia), Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan (Norther and North-Eastern).

Host plants. Cherries ( Rosaceae : Prunus cerasus L., P. avium L., P. serotina Ehrn. , P. mahaleb L.) and honeysuckles ( Caprifoliaceae : Lonicera tatarica L., L. xylosteum L.) ( Hendel, 1927; White & Elson-Harris, 1992; Merz, 1994).

Figures

Fig. 1. Carpomyini. 1–2 — Carpomya pardalina, Kherson (1 — freshly emerged male; 2 — infested melon with holes in skin (cyan arrows) prepared by larvae for emerging of adults); 3 — Rhagoletis meigenii on Berberis fruit, Berlin; 4 — R. cerasi on Lonicera fruit, Kyiv, Grishko Botanical Gardens. Photos by R. I. Mishustin (1–2) and V. A. Korneyev (3–4).

Fig. 4. Carpomya spp. wings: 1 — C. (Goniglossum) wiedemanni; 2 — C. (Myiopardalis) pardalina; 3 — C. (s. str.) incompleta; 4 — C. (s. str.) schineri; 5 — C. (s. str.) vesuviana.

Fig. 5. Rhagoletis spp. mesonotums (1–8), dorsal view, and head (2), lateral view: 1 — R. completa; 2 — R. bagheera; 3 — R. berberidis; 4 — R. cerasi; 5 — R. flavicincta; 6 — R. flavigenualis; 7 — R. obsoleta, Myhiia; 8 — R. sp. near obsoleta, Mt. Hermon.