Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tephritidae: Urophora sp.
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| Isidro |
Posted on 12-05-2012 07:33
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Host plant: Carduus assoanus Date: yesterday Weather: hot and warm, not windy Size: big for an Urophora, maybe 6-7 mm Location: Perdiguera, Monegros region, Zaragoza, NE Spain Habitat: abandoned wheat field and steppes in gypsy soil for sure Valery you know the species  Thanks  |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 16-05-2012 22:06
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 17-05-2012 22:01
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Looks like Urophora mauritanca Mcq. Oviscape is too long for U. solstitialis, which lives on Carduus. It's only visiting this plant.
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 17-05-2012 22:04 Val |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 17-05-2012 22:32
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks Valery! Only visiting, really? Bit there was various of them, males and females in separated thistles... not many individuals, but none of them in other than thistles. |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 18-05-2012 10:10
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Member Location: Posts: 3580 Joined: 28.12.07 |
Dear Isidro: ID of Urophora by pictures always a sort of guess. However, my observations show that Urophora species often are lekking on an improper plant if their own plant is not flowering yet. They feed, but normally neither copulate nor oviposite, and then move to their host plant. One of the few exclusions are Urophora terebrans and probably U. tenuis, which seem to shift between several genera of Cardueae plants (Onopordum, Cirsium, Cynara, Arctium) when there are no properly developed flower heads of a better host. However, no shifting between hosts have been ever recorded for U. mauritanica. I leave a little chance that it is not a mauritanica, but to be sure, I must see the aculeus tip under a big magnification. Val |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 18-05-2012 14:44
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2102 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Wow, that is an amazing interesting info! The biology of flies poorly known, thanks for add this great point Valery. I'll let as mauritanica then! Thanks again, Isidro |
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