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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Dithrycini » Aciurina » Bubble-gall Tephritid (Aciurina trixa)
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tephritid - Aciurina trixa - female
Copyright © 2015 Joyce Gross

tephritid - Aciurina trixa - Female
Short Canyon, Kern County, California, USA
March 26, 2015
Size: ~4mm
Her ovipositor is visible under a tissue layer of the stem.

I saw two kinds of already-developed galls on this bush, but I don't know if this was the inducer of either of those, or perhaps of a different type of gall. Ericameria is galled by quite a few different tephritid species.

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 6 April, 2015 - 1:17am
Last updated 22 March, 2020 - 9:56pm

Moved
Moved from Aciurina.
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