Urophora quadrifasciata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Urophora of the family Tephritidae. The host plant for the larvae is usually a knapweed (Centaurea sp),[3] and because of this, it is used to control Centaurea stoebe.[4]
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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: | Myopitini |
| Genus: | Urophora |
| Species: | U. quadrifasciata
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| Urophora quadrifasciata | |
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Distribution
editEurope & Kazakhstan, North Africa & Iran; introduced North America & Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b c Meigen, J.W. (1826). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54.
- ^ 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.
- ^ White, Ian M. Tephritid Flies, Diptera: Tephritidae (PDF). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 10. Royal Entomological Society of London. Retrieved 19 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.