Tephritis matricariae
5mm. Brown-bodied with highly patterned wings. The female oviscape is hairy at the base and has dull red patches on the sides. A gall-forming fruitfly in the flowerheads of plants in the Asteraceae family, particularly Crepis.
Other Tephritis species. Can be separated by careful examination of the wing pattern.
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All year (overwinters in evergreen vegetation).
Uncommon.
Rare or under-recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Clemons, L. (2000) Tephritis matricariae (Loew, 1844) (Dip.: Tephritidae) new to Britain and breeding in East Kent. Entomologists Record And Journal Of Variation, 112(5), 225-230.
David Nicholls
Ratby church
03 March 2024
David Nicholls
Ratby church
03 March 2024
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Species profile
- Species group:
- insect - true fly (Diptera)
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Tephritidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 03/03/2024 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/03/2024 (Cann, Alan)
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