Species Procecidochares atra

Classification · Food · Life Cycle

Fruit Fly - Procecidochares atra - female

Fruit Fly IMG_0894 - Procecidochares atra - female

unique Diptera - Procecidochares atra - female

Goldenrod Gall Fly - Procecidochares atra - male

Small pretty fly - Is this Chaetopsis? - Procecidochares atra

Tephritidae, Goldenrod gall opened - Procecidochares atra

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 Cecidocharini

Genus Procecidochares

Species atra (Procecidochares atra)

Food

Its galls are most common on Solidago altissima, S. gigantea, S. rugosa.

Life Cycle

The species has two generations a year. Interestingly, the spring generation develops in large stem galls at the base of the host plant and each gall contains several larvae, unlike the bud galls of the summer generation, each of which contains a single larva. Comment by Netta Dorchin

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 4 August, 2006 - 8:30pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 June, 2018 - 3:13pm

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