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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Myopitini » Urophora » Canada Thistle Stem Gall Fly (Urophora cardui)
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Fruit fly? - Urophora cardui
Copyright © 2018 Carol Davis

Fruit fly? - Urophora cardui
Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, Utah, USA
June 3, 2018
Has wing markings similar to Rhagoletotrypeta rohweri but no white stripe down thorax.

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Fruit fly? - Urophora cardui Fruit fly? - Urophora cardui Fruit fly? - Urophora cardui
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Contributed by Carol Davis on 3 June, 2018 - 9:58pm

Moved
Moved from Tephritoidea.
… Carol Davis, 3 June, 2018 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

Urophora cardui (male)…
The range for this species includes Utah since the host plant is also present there.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 3 June, 2018 - 10:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks...
They need an insect like this to combat Teasel. The area I found this fly in is full of it.
… Carol Davis, 3 June, 2018 - 10:47pm login or register to post comments

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