Myopites cypriacus Hering 1938

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 : 444

Myopites cypriacus Hering 1938 ( fig. 2 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: Douar Halila, reared from Dittrichia graveolens L., 22.12.2018, 1 Ơ, 2 ♀; 25.12.2018, 2 ♀; 27.12.2018, 1 Ơ; 29.12.2018, 1 ♀; 2 Ơ, 10.02.2019, 1 ♀; 01.03.2019, 4 Ơ, 1 ♀ (El Harym). Dam Nakhla , 1 Ơ, 08.02.2019 ; 5 Ơ, 1 ♀, 01.03.2019; 4 Ơ, 3 ♀, 06.03.2019; 12 Ơ, 4 ♀, 08.03.2019; 9 Ơ, 6 ♀, 18.03.2019; 18 Ơ, 17 ♀, 01.04.2019 ( El Harym ) . Marabout Sidi Bou Hadjel, reared from Pulicaria arabica L., 10.06.2019, 1 ♀ ( El Harym ) .

Host plants. In this study, Dittrichia graveolens (L.) ( fig. 2 , c) and Pulicaria arabica (L.) Cass. Desf. ( fig. 2 , h), plus P. sicula ( Dirlbek, 1974, Freidberg, 1979, Freidberg & Kugler, 1989). Record of Centaurea iberica Trevir. & Spreng. ( Bayrak & Hayat, 2012) is an error.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Italy, Cyprus; Israel ( Norrbom et al., 1999); Turkey ( Bayrak & Hayat, 2012; Koçak and Kemal 2013); Morocco (first record). First record for North Africa.

Figures

Fig. 2. Myopites cypriacus (a–b, d–g) and its host plants (c, h): a–c — from Pulicaria arabica, d–h — from Dittrichia graveolens: a, e–h — female; b — male; f — aculeus, g — its apex, enlarged.