Tephritis praecox
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Tephritini |
| Genus: | Tephritis |
| Species: | T. praecox
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| Tephritis praecox | |
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Tephritis praecox is a species is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae found across Europe.[3]
Description[edit]
The adult fly is grey-brown in colour with a wing length measuring between 1.8–3.2 mm. The wings are hyaline and distinctively marked between different species of this genus.[4]
Biology[edit]
T. praecox is associated with several host plants including Calendula arvensis, Chrysanthemum sp., Filago gallica, and Senecio. When mating, male flies wait near the capitulum of their chosen flower bud. When a female appears they begin a mating dance during which the male holds his wings flat and then opens them alternately.[4] The larvae develops in the seed head.
Distribution[edit]
T. praecox can be found across central and western Europe.[5] It was first noted from Britain in 1937 on the basis of a single female found in Suffolk in 1907.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Loew, H. (1844). "Kritische Untersuchung der europäische n Arten des Genus Trypeta Meig". Z. Ent. (Germar). 5: 312–437.
- ^ Loew, H. (1869). "Revision der europäische n Trypetina". Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaft. 34 (7/8): 1–24. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
- ^ a b White, I. M. (1988). Tephritid flies. Diptera: Tephritidae (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol. 10, Part 5a) (PDF). Royal Entomological Society of London.
- ^ "Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844)". Fauna Europeana. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ Collin, J.E. (1937). "Trypeta vectensis sp.n. and other new or little known British species of Trypetidae (Diptera)". Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 49: 1–7.