Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992

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

Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L. Mazzon; individualCount: 17; sex: 8 males and 9 females; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz , 1992; higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Tephritini ; genus: Tephritis ; specificEpithet: conyzifoliae; scientificNameAuthorship: Merz , 1992; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Trentino-Alto Adige Region; county: Trento Province ; municipality: Moena ; locality: San Pellegrino Pass ; verbatimElevation: 1925 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°22'48.0"N 11°47'37.0"E; decimalLatitude: 46.3800; decimalLongitude: 11.7936; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2008; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Crepis conyzifolia; eventDate: 28/07/2008; habitat: pasture; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Armenia ( Evstigneev and Glukhova 2020), Czechia, France, Italy, Switzerland ( Merz and Korneyev 2011), Russia ( Evstigneev 2016), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan ( Korneyev 2016a), Poland ( Klasa and Palaczyk 2005), Tajikistan ( Korneyev and Korneyev 2019) and Ukraine ( Korneyev and Klasa 2016). Note: the present records from Italy (Fig. 2 c) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011).

Biology

The larvae develop in flower heads of Crepis conyzifolia (Gouan) A. Kern. ( Merz 1992), Cr. sibirica L. ( Shcherbakov 2001, Korneyev 2016a), Cr. pannonica (Jacq.) K. Koch ( Evstigneev 2016) and Cr. ciliata K. Koch ( Evstigneev and Glukhova 2020).

Notes

This species was recorded from continental Italy by Merz and Korneyev (2011), without further collection data. Korneyev (2016a) treated T. conyzifoliae as a senior synonym of Tephritis academica Bassov and Tolstoguzova, 1994, T. nartshukovi Bassov and Tolstoguzova, 1994 and T. epicrepis Scherbakov, 2001, all described from Russia.