Tephritis carmen Hering, 1937

El Harym, Y., Belqat, B. & Korneyev, V. A., 2020, The Fruit Flies Of Morocco: New Records Of The Tephritinae (Diptera, Tephritidae), Zoodiversity 54 (6), pp. 439-452 : 447

Tephritis carmen Hering, 1937 ( fig. 7 , e)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: forest house (sweeping), 04.07.2020, 1 Ơ (El Harym).

Host plant. Larvae induce gregarious galls in Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (L.) Zaika, Sukhor. & N.Kilian (= Scorzonera hispanica L.) (Cichorieae) FLower heads ( Merz, 1994; Freidberg & Kütük, 2002).

Distribution. Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland; Turkey ( Merz, 1994; Özgür & Kütük, 2003). Morocco (first record). First record from North Africa.

Figures

Fig. 7. Aciura coryli (a–b), Capitites ramulosa (c–d), Tephritis carmen (e) and T. simplex (f): a — head, dorsally; b — wing; c, e, f — habitus, lateral view; d — host plant (Phagnalon saxatile).