Rhagoletis berberidis Jermy, 1961

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

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scientific name

Rhagoletis berberidis Jermy, 1961
status

 

Rhagoletis berberidis Jermy, 1961

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 2; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Rhagoletis berberidis Jermy , 1961; higherClassification: Subfamily Trypetinae , Tribe Carpomyini ; genus: Rhagoletis ; specificEpithet: berberidis; scientificNameAuthorship: Jermy , 1961; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Claut ; verbatimElevation: 675 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°16'6.14"N, 12°31'39.23"E; decimalLatitude: 46.2684; decimalLongitude: 12.5276; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2009; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from fruits of Berberis vulgaris; eventDate: 15/08/2008; habitat: edge of forest; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps GoogleMaps

Distribution

Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine ( Merz and Korneyev 2011); Russian North Caucasus ( Kandybina 1977), Turkey ( Kütük and Özaslan 2006) and Iran ( Mohamadzade Namin et al. 2010). The species (Fig. 2 f) is here recorded as new to Italy.

Biology

The larvae develop in seeds of Berberis vulgaris L. ( Jermy 1961, Merz 1994).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Rhagoletis