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Species Trupanea jonesi

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Tephritidae (Fruit Flies)
Subfamily Tephritinae
Tribe Tephritini
No Taxon (Tephritis group)
Genus Trupanea
Species jonesi (Trupanea jonesi)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trupanea microstigma (Curran, 1932)
Explanation of Names
Trupanea jonesi (Curran, 1932)
Identification
"Among all Trupanea species having a narrow pterostigmal ray, the apex of cell br completely hyaline, the base of cell r4+5 with a distinct hyaline spot, and only one ray in the apical half of cell dm,jonesi can be recognized by the elongate spot at the center of vein CuA1 (fig. 465, b). This is a very constant character which, together with the pterostigmal ray, distinguishes the females from all the species in the group. Males of jonesi resemble those of radifera, but the presence of the elongate dark mark on vein CuA1 distinguishes them adequately." (Foote, Blanc, & Norrbom, 1993 (1))
Food
Hosts were listed by Wasbauer (1972), and Goeden (1985); see References below. All genera listed by those two authors are in family Asteraceae (HW), and are mentioned in Foote, Blanc, & Norrbom (1)
Print References
Foote, R.H. and F.L. Blanc (1963). The Fruit Flies or Tephritidae of California. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 7: 1-117. (2)
Foote, Richard H., F.L. Blanc, and Allen L. Norrbom (1993). Handbook of the Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America North of Mexico. Cornell Univ. Press (1)
Goeden, R. D. (1985). Host-plant relations of Trupanea ssp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) in southern California. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 87(3): 564-571 (Full Text)
Goeden, R. D., J. A. Teerink and D. H. Headrick (1998). Life history and description of the immature stages of Trupanea jonesi Curran (Dptera: Tephritidae) on native Asteraceae of southern California. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash., 100(1): 126-140 (Full Text)
Wasbauer, Marius S. (1972). An annotated host catalog of the fruit flies of America north of Mexico (Diptera: Tephritidae). Occasional papers no. 19, Bureau of Entomology, Calif. Dept. Agric., Sacramento, CA.
Works Cited
1.Handbook of the Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America North of Mexico
Richard H. Foote, P. L. Blanc, Allen L. Norrbom. 1993. Cornell University Press (Comstock Publishing).
2.The fruit flies or Tephritidae of California
R.H. Foote, F.L. Blanc. 1963. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 7: 1-117.