Campiglossa misella (Loew, 1869)

Namin, S. Mohamadzade & Nozari, J., 2015, Fruit Flies Of The Genus Campiglossa (Diptera, Tephritidae) In Iran, With The Key To Species, Vestnik Zoologii 49 (3), pp. 251-260 : 255

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/vzoo-2015-0026

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6452420

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scientific name

Campiglossa misella (Loew, 1869)
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Campiglossa misella (Loew, 1869) View in CoL ( fig. 21–26 View Fig )

Material examined. Tehran: 5 km North East Abali , 2360 m, 35°50' N, 51°58' E, 29.08.2008 GoogleMaps , 1 Ơ; Mazandaran: Haraz road, Rineh, South mountainside of Damavand , 35°52' N, 52°06' E, 2500 m, 24.07.2010, 2 ♀; (Mohamadzade leg.) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Iran: Tehran, Mazandaran, East Azerbaijan. General: throughout Europe, China ( Norrbom et al., 1999).

Diagnosis. Posterior notopleural seta black, femora black ( fig. 21–22 View Fig ); Stigma with one hyaline spot; cell br with 2 hyaline spots ( fig. 23 View Fig ); Ventral margin of the head shorter than head height ( fig. 26 View Fig ); Mesonotum with three brownish longitudinal bands ( fig. 22 View Fig ). Oviscape shorter than 4 posteriormost preabdominal tergites; apex of aculeus with one pair of not very prominent steps ( fig. 25 View Fig ).

Comments. This species is common throughout Palaearctics, from Europe to China, but very local in Iran. Larvae feed in flower heads of various wormwoods, first of all, mugwort and absinth ( Artemisia vulgaris L., A. absinthii L.), which occur mainly in the North-Western and Northern Iran. See also comments on C. absinthii .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Campiglossa

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