Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826)

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

Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male and 1 female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Urophora ; specificEpithet: cuspidata; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; locality: Via Vals ; verbatimElevation: 320 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°11'6.43"N 12°43'55.33"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1851; decimalLongitude: 12.7320; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : dateIdentified: 2007; Event : samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa; eventDate: 15/07/2006; habitat: grassland; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 females; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Urophora ; specificEpithet: cuspidata; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; locality: Via Vals ; verbatimElevation: 320 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°11'6.43"N 12°43'55.33"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1851; decimalLongitude: 12.7320; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : dateIdentified: 2007; Event : samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa; eventDate: 26/06/2007; habitat: grassland; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Northern, central and eastern Europe from northern Spain, southern France and Italy ( Merz 1994, Merz and Korneyev 2011) to Ukraine, European and Asian Russia and Kazakhstan ( Korneyev and White 1996); Iran ( Mohamadzade Namin and Nozari 2011). Notes: the present records from Italy (Fig. 1 c) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011). The record from Turkey by Kütük et al. (2013) needs confirmation.

Biology

The larvae develop in flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa L. (incl. ssp. Centaurea scabiosa alpestris ) and Ce. collina L. ( White and Korneyev 1989); records of other host species, including " Ce. tenuifolia " ( Merz 1994) need confirmation.