Xyphosia laticauda (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

Xyphosia laticauda (Meigen, 1826)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Xyphosia laticauda (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Xyphosiini ; genus: Xyphosia ; specificEpithet: laticauda; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Maniago ; locality: Colvera ; verbatimElevation: 210 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°10'11.11"N, 12°44'16.48"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1698; decimalLongitude: 12.7379; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2006; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea triumfettii; eventDate: 10/07/2006; habitat: gravel streambed; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Xyphosia laticauda (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Xyphosiini ; genus: Xyphosia ; specificEpithet: laticauda; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Cavasso Nuovo ; locality: Meduna ; verbatimElevation: 147 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°12'41.0"N 12°46'38.9"E; decimalLatitude: 46.2114; decimalLongitude: 12.7775; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2006; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea triumfettii; eventDate: 07/07/2006; habitat: gravel streambed; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Austria, France, Hungary, Switzerland ( Merz and Korneyev 2011); Armenia ( Korneyev 1983); Russian North Caucasus (Korneyev and Korneyev, unpublished data). The species (Fig. 2 e) is here recorded as new to Italy.

Biology

The larvae develop in flower heads of Centaurea montana L. ( Frauenfeld 1857); this species is superficially similar to Centaurea triumfettii All.; either both species are infested by this species or misidentifications have occurred.