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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Tephritini » Tephritis group » Tephritis » Tephritis pura
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Tephritis pura (Loew) - Tephritis pura
Copyright © 2011 okeller

Tephritis pura (Loew) - Tephritis pura
Port Sanilac, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA
April 18, 2010
Size: ~5 mm
I keyed this out to be Tephritis pura (Loew). Would be a first for BugGuide.

Changed the picture, this one is way better.

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Contributed by okeller on 19 March, 2011 - 4:34pm
Last updated 27 December, 2011 - 10:07am

Moved
Moved from Fruit Flies. Allen Norrbom thinks it is T. pura. He also notes that the wing illustrations for pura and michiganensis in the handbook may be reversed.
… John F. Carr, 21 March, 2011 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

Tephritis pura or michiganensis
While this keys to pura in the key to species of Tephritis, I can not distinguish it from michiganensis. To my eye figure 434 for T. michiganensis keys to T. pura; it has a small second hyaline spot in r1 as in pura and that spot is the character used to separate them. The text notes that the species are quite similar.

I will ask Allen Norrbom at USDA (co-author of the handbook) if he has an opinion. He has identified a few fruit flies here.
… John F. Carr, 19 March, 2011 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

 
I see what you mean. But I us
I see what you mean. But I used that key too and at step 12 I saw that the second hyalid spot never extended apicad beyond the anterior extension of the dm-cu.

Thats how I got to T. pura and not T. michiganensis.
… okeller, 19 March, 2011 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. I'll check later.
… John F. Carr, 19 March, 2011 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

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