Terellia tussilaginis, the gall fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[5]
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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: | Terelliini |
| Genus: | Terellia |
| Species: | T. tussilaginis
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Distribution
editThis species is present in most of Europe, in European Russia and in the East Palearctic ecozone.[6][7]
Habitat
editThese flies inhabit meadows, gardens and where the host plants grow.
Description
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Terellia tussilaginis can reach a body length of about 5 millimetres (0.20 in). These fruit flies have a pale green yellow body with distinctive brown banding on its wings.[8] The costal cell is completely hyaline. Katepisternum shows reddish spots. The anterior half of mesonotum is reddish to brown. Tergite 4 is usually black.[9]
Biology
editAdults can be seen from June to August.[8] The larvae live in the flowerheads of Arctium lappa, Arctium minus, Arctium tomentosum and Cirsium vulgare, feeding on them and causing galls to form.[8][10][11]
References
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- ^ a b Fabricius, J.C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig]: Kortii. pp. [32] + 832. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ Cederhjelm (1798). I. . Favnae Ingricae Prodromvs ... . Lipsiae [=Leipzig].: Iohann. Freid. Hartknoch. pp. xviii + 348 pp., 3 pls.
- ^ Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b Schrank, F. von P. (1803). Favna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Krull, Landshut. pp. viii + 1–372 pp.volume=3.
- ^ Biolib
- ^ Fauna europaea
- ^ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life
- ^ a b c Nature Spot
- ^ Korneyev, V.A. (2003). "New and little-known Tephritidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha) from Europe" (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii. 37 (3): 3–12, 101. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ White, Ian. M. (1988). "Tephritid Flies". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 10 (Pt 5a). London: Royal Entomological Society: 1–134.
- ^ iNaturalist