Ensina sonchi is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae , the gall flies. It is found in the Palearctic .[8] The head is light yellow head. Greenish body with yellow villae. The disc of the mesonotum is blackish. Black mesophragm. The legs and halteres are dirty yellow. Wings vitreous or opaline. Abdomen black: tergites tightly yellow at posterior margin with black villi; rufous sternites; Macrochaetes yellowish. Oviscapte black, apex and sides rufous, with fine, yellowish villi. -Long. : 3-3.5 mm.[9][10][11] The larvae feed on the flower heads of Asteraceae (Chondrilla juncea, Cirsium arvense, Cirsium vulgare, Hieracium umbellatum, Hypochaeris radicata Sonchus arvensis , Taraxacum officinale ....).[12]

Ensina sonchi
Ensina sonchi Netherlands
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Noeetini
Genus: Ensina
Species:
E. sonchi
Binomial name
Ensina sonchi
Synonyms

Distribution edit

United Kingdom & Scandinavia South to North Africa, East to Japan; introduced to Ethiopia, Taiwan, Philippines, Hawaii.

References edit

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  2. ^ Fallen, C.F. (1820). Ortalides Sveciae. Lundae [= Lund]: Berlingianis. pp. 1–12. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  4. ^ Haliday, Alexander Henry (1838). "New British insects indicated in Mr. Curtis's Guide". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (9): 183–190. doi:10.1080/00222933809512369.
  5. ^ Hendel, Friedrich Georg (1915). "H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Tephritinae" (PDF). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 13 (2): 424–467, pls. 8–9. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. ^ Hering, E.M. (1953). "Neue Fruchtfliegen von China, Vorderasien, Brasilien und Guatemala". Siruna Seva. 8: 1–16.
  7. ^ Shiraki, T. (1968). "Fruit flies of the Ryukyu Islands (Diptera: Tephritidae)". U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 263: 104.
  8. ^ Fauna Europaea
  9. ^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6 ISBN 81-205-0081-4
  10. ^ Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf
  11. ^ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
  12. ^ White, Ian M. Tephritid Flies, Diptera: Tephritidae (PDF). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 10. Royal Entomological Society of London. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

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