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Urophora sirunaseva

Description

Urophora sirunaseva (Hering, 1938)

(Figs 1–7)

Material examined. Armenia, Kotayk Prov., nr. pre-Christian pagan temple of Garni in Garni Vill., 2 females and 1 male reared 31.III–13.IV.2020 from capitula of Centaurea solstitialis collected on 9.VIII.2019 (coll. D.A. Evstigneev).

Distribution. Turkey, Greece, Moldova (White & Clement, 1987; White & V. Korneyev, 1989), Ukraine (Kameneva & V. Korneyev, 1987; White & V. Korneyev, 1989; V. Korneyev & White, 1993), Israel (White & V. Korneyev, 1989), Azerbaijan (V. Korneyev & White, 1993) and Iran (Karimpour, 2011; Mohamadzade Namin & V. Korneyev, 2018).

Comments. This species is recorded from Armenia for the first time. It was known from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran neighbouring with Armenia. The morphological details of U. sirunaseva are illustrated in Figs 1–7. This species is characterised by distinct subbasal, discal, preapical and apical crossbands (crossbands are listed from wing base to wing apex), distinct preapical primary and secondary steps and truncate apex of the aculeus. The species belongs to the Urophora solstitialis species–group (V. Korneyev & White, 1993) and differs from the other members of the group in the entirely yellow femur without any black spots (Figs 1, 2) and the short distance between the primary and secondary steps of the aculeus (Figs 6, 7).

Notes

Published as part of Evstigneev, D. A. & Glukhova, N. V., 2022, Tephritid flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia: new records and new host plants, pp. 118-129 in Zoosystematica Rossica (China) (China) 31 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.31610/zsr/2022.31.1.118

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2020-03-31
Verbatim event date
2020-03-31/04-13
Scientific name authorship
Hering
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Urophora
Species
sirunaseva
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Urophora sirunaseva (Hering, 1938) sec. Evstigneev & Glukhova, 2022

References

  • White I. M. & Clement S. L. 1987. Systematic notes on Urophora (Diptera, Tephritidae) species associated with Centaurea solstitialis (Asteraceae, Cardueae) and other Palaearctic weeds adventive in North America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 87 (3): 571-580.
  • Korneyev V. A. & White I. M. 1993. Fruit flies of the genus Urophora R. - D. (Diptera, Tephritidae) of the East Palaearctic. II. Review of species of the subgenus Urophora s. str. Communication 2. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 72 (1): 232 - 247. (In Russian; English translation: Entomological Review, 1993, 72 (9): 82-98).
  • Karimpour Y. 2011. Fruit flies (Dip.: Tephritidae) reared from capitula of Asteraceae in the Urmia region, Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 30 (2): 53-66.