Species Chaetorellia australis - Yellow Starthistle Peacock Fly

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Yellow spotted fruit fly with blue-green eyes - Chaetorellia australis

Terellia occidentalis? - Chaetorellia australis

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

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