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Yellow Starthistle Peacock Fly (Chaetorellia australis)
Species
Chaetorellia australis
- Yellow Starthistle Peacock Fly
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
Terelliini
Genus
Chaetorellia
Species
australis
(Yellow Starthistle Peacock Fly)
Explanation of Names
Chaetorellia australis
Hering
Range
native to so. Europe, introduced in NA (WA-OR)
(
1
)
Remarks
Introduced to control invasive weeds (
Centaurea
spp., esp.
C. solstitialis
)
(
1
)
Internet References
Fact sheets:
by D.W. Pierce
(
2
)
,
by K. Lemrick
(
1
)
Wikipedia
Works Cited
1.
Breitenfeldt T., ed. (1999-) Montana war on weeds
2.
Integrated Weed Control Project: Biological control agents
Contributed by
Martin Hauser
on 4 August, 2006 - 6:48pm
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
,
v belov
Last updated 11 October, 2016 - 12:32pm