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Genus Chaetorellia

Yellow spotted fruit fly with blue-green eyes - Chaetorellia australis Tephritid Fruit Fly #3 - Chaetorellia succinea - female Chaetorellia succinea or australis? - Chaetorellia succinea - female Chaetorellia succinea or australis? - Chaetorellia succinea - female Diptera-1 - Chaetorellia succinea - female Diptera-1 - Chaetorellia succinea - female fruitfly on perennial sunflower that has not bloomed yet - Chaetorellia Banded-wing yellow-brown fruit fly with large conical ovipositor. - Chaetorellia - female
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
Explanation of Names
Chaetorellia Hendel 1927
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (all introduced), 9 spp. total(1)
Identification
Key to species in(2)
Range
native to Eurasia, introduced in NA to control non-native weeds(1)
Food
on Centaurea(3)
Remarks
Ch. acrolophi (the Knapweed Peacock Fly)(3) is not yet in the guide
Internet References
Cornell U.
Works Cited
1.Norrbom A.L. (2004-2010) Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) taxonomy pages
2.A revision of the genus Chaetorellia Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae) including a new species associated with spotted knapweed...
Ian M. white and Kirsten Marquardt. 1989. Bull. ent. Res.
3.Integrated Weed Control Project: Biological control agents
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 4 August, 2006 - 6:48pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 19 July, 2020 - 2:54pm

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