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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Myopitini » Urophora » Brown Knapweed Gall Fly (Urophora jaceana)
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Mating Flies With Stripped Wings - Urophora jaceana
Copyright © 2007 Mardon Erbland

Mating Flies With Stripped Wings - Urophora jaceana
48.174754N 53.966562W (WGS84), Clarenville, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 3, 2007
Size: large fly 7mm to wingtips

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 7 July, 2007 - 2:08pm
Last updated 9 January, 2010 - 9:48pm

Moved
Moved from Urophora.
… John F. Carr, 9 January, 2010 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Picture-winged Flies.
… Mardon Erbland, 23 March, 2008 - 7:15am login or register to post comments

Tephritidae: Urophora jaceana Hering
This is a species introduced to the NA as an agent for biocontrol of Centaurea jacea.
… Valery A. Korneyev, 23 March, 2008 - 6:05am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thank you for the ID. I've moved my images to the Genus page but I guess we'll have to wait for a BugGuide editor to create a page for the species, Urophora jaceana (Hering, 1935). It's interesting to learn that these flies were imported to control Centaurea jacea. I still see lots of Brown Knapweed around here. Does that mean these flies are not doing ther job?
… Mardon Erbland, 23 March, 2008 - 7:20am login or register to post comments

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