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Tephritidae: Ensina?
Juergen Peters
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Posted on 22-09-2007 23:30
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Hello!

This only 2.5 mm long fly visited Leucanthemum vulgare flowers on a meadow near a forest yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany). It resembles the Ensina sonchi in the gallery, but has dark wing markings. Same genus, other species?
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E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.
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Kahis wrote:
E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.


Many thanks, Kahis! As I have seen meanwhile that is also the only species here in Germany.
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It's indeed E. sonchi. There's only one Ensina here in Europe, there are two other species in the western Palearctic, one that is endemic to the Canary isles and Madeira: E. decisa and one endemic to the Azore: E. azorica.

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John Smit wrote:
It's indeed E. sonchi. There's only one Ensina here in Europe, there are two other species in the western Palearctic, one that is endemic to the Canary isles and Madeira: E. decisa and one endemic to the Azore: E. azorica.


Thanks, too, John! I never saw that fly here before.
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Kahis wrote:
E. sonchi. The wing pattern of this species is somewhat variable, and males are often a bit darken than females.


Today I've got a female Smile - also with dark wing pattern:


www.foto-upload.de/diptera/071007/Ensina_sonchi_2mm_W1.jpg
www.foto-upload.de/diptera/071007/Ensina_sonchi_2mm_W2.jpg
www.foto-upload.de/diptera/071007/Ensina_sonchi_2mm_W3.jpg
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