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Species Trypeta flaveola

leafminer - Trypeta flaveola Small Golden Fly - Trypeta flaveola Small Golden Fly - Trypeta flaveola Fruit Fly - Trypeta flaveola Fruit Fly - Trypeta flaveola Leaf Mines - Trypeta flaveola Fly - Trypeta flaveola Tephritidae, Indian Plantain leaf miner - Trypeta flaveola
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 Trypetinae
Tribe Trypetini
Subtribe Trypetina
Genus Trypeta
Species flaveola (Trypeta flaveola)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trypeta (Acidia) tortile (Coquillett, 1894)(1)
Trypeta inaequalis (Coquillett, 1904)
Acidia sigma Phillips, 1923
Trypeta angustigena Foote, 1960
Explanation of Names
Trypeta flaveola Coquillett, 1899
Food
Larvae are leafminers in various Asteraceae.
Life Cycle
Life cycle described in(2)
Remarks
Great amount of wing pattern variation within species
Works Cited
1.A systematic revision of the New World species of Trypeta Meigen (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Han H., Norrbom A.L. 2005. Systematic Entomology. 30: 208-247 .
2.The Biology of Trypeta angustigena Foote in Central Coastal California - Host Plants and Notes (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Kenneth E. Frick. 1971. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.