Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae 6 --> Tephritis sp.
Posted by Jordi Clavell on 04-09-2011 15:08
#1
Could someone help me identifying these Tephritid?
The photo (author: Francisco Rodríguez) was made near Almeria, Spain, on 15.5.2011.
Thanks
Edited by Jordi Clavell on 05-09-2011 15:38
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 04-09-2011 17:48
#2
Tephritis sp. ex
nigricauda-dioscurea group (nigricauda or spreta - I do not think they actually are synonyms)
Posted by Jordi Clavell on 04-09-2011 18:24
#3
Seems that the Tephritidae taxonomy is now being revised? I'm quite interested in this matter... Are there any paper about this?
Thanks for your comments.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 04-09-2011 18:50
#4
Severin and I work on
Tephritis step by step, but my own main work is focused on the Palaeotropical Pyrgotidae. Bernhard Merz recently published only Emirates reviews. John Smit published a book on Dutch tephritids. Saeed Mohamadzade has started revision of Iranian fauna. Marc DeMeyer works mostly with Afrotropical Ceratitidini. This is all at the moment on this side of Atlantics.
Or are you more interested in the general classification?
Posted by Jordi Clavell on 04-09-2011 19:03
#5
Thanks, Valery.
I'm interested mainly in neartic tephritids, but I think that's better to have a global vision about the group, so I'll search first about this authors, and after this, about general classification.