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Tephritis vespertina (Loew, 1844) (a gall fly)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Tephritis vespertina Female imago 11 July 1998 Berks England 3
Tephritis vespertina Female imago 11 July 1998 Berks England 3
Tephritis vespertina Imago 27 June 1998 Berks England 2
Tephritis vespertina Male imago 27 June 1998 Berks England 2

Suggested Literature

Tephritis vespertina may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
ACALYPTRATA
(acalypterate flies)
TEPHRITIDAE
(gall flies, greater fruit flies)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Tephritis vespertina is associated with:

Photos larva Crepis - hawk's-beards (Asteraceae) larva feeds within capitulum UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos larva Hypochaeris radicata - Cat’s Ear (Asteraceae) larva feeds within capitulum UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos larva Picris echioides - Bristly Ox-tongue (Asteraceae) larva feeds within capitulum Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos larva Tragopogon pratensis - Goat’s-beard, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon (Asteraceae) larva feeds within capitulum Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988

There may be more taxa associated with Tephritis vespertina listed at higher taxonomic level

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
CYCLORRHAPHA
(a suborder of flies)

Associated with Tephritis vespertina:

larva larva is endoparasitoid host of larva Eurytoma tibialis - a chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) Redfern, M., 1968

Tephritis vespertina may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

References

Redfern, M., 1968 The Natural History of Spear Thistle-heads
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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