Terellia pseudovirens ( Hering, 1940 )

Zarghani, E., Khaghaninia, S., Namin, S. Mohamadzade, Karimpour, Y. & Korneyev, V. A., 2016, First Records Of The Friut Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) In The Fauna Of Iran, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (2), pp. 123-134 : 131-132

Terellia pseudovirens ( Hering, 1940) ( fig. 35–37 )

Hering, 1940; Korneyev, 1982; Freidberg & Kugler, 1989 ( Orellia ); Korneyev, 1985 ( Terellia pseudovirens ). — Evstigneev & Korneyev, 2006 ( Terellia vectensis ).

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Iran: West Azerbaijan Province: Qazemloo Valley , 1450 m [37.300 N, 45.119 E], reared from Klasea cerinthifolia , coll. 03.2006, exit 05.06.2006, 5 Ơ, 3 ♀ (Karimpour) , idem, swept from K. cerinthifolia , coll. 15.05.2014, 9 Ơ, 12 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev, Karimpour) , idem, 19.06.2014, 11 Ơ, 5 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev, Mohamadzade & Karimpour) ( SIZK, SMNC) ; Greece: Nea Kallikrateia [40.308956, 23.069023], h = 8 m, near sea shore, swept from Serratula sp. , 31.05.2002, 30 Ơ, 25 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev, Kameneva) ( SIZK) . Ukraine: Odessa Region, Tilihul Lagoon bank slopes [47.023 N, 30.993 E], ex “ Serratula xeranthemoides ” [= Klasea erucifolia ], coll. 19.08.1991 — exit 22.03.1992, 2 Ơ, 1 ♀ ( V. Korneyev) ; Donetsk Region: Khomutovskiy Steppe Natural Reserve [47.285 N, 38.186 E], ex flower heads of Serratula radiata , coll. 10.1992 — exit 03.1993, 9 Ơ, 4 ♀ ( V. Korneyev) ( SIZK) .

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s. Gena narrow, at most as wide as flagellomere 1 length; mesonotum with black lyrate pattern; dorsocentral and acrostichal setae without black spots at bases; wing hyaline, usually at least with one dark spot in the middle of cell r 1 ( fig. 35 ), often also on crossveins, at pterostigma and apex of cell r 1; abdomen black setulose male tergite 5 as long as tergites 1–4 combined, basally with pairs of short spots partly fused together ( fig. 36 ); no apicolateral black spots present; female abdomen with 2 pairs of small partly fused black spots on tergites 3–6; oviscape slightly longer than preceding 3 abdominal tergites; aculeus apically blunt.

H o s t p l a n t s. In Iran, this species is reared by Y. Karimpour from Klasea cerinthifolia (Sm.) Greuter & Wagenitz (syn. Serratula cerinthifolia (Sm.) Boiss. ) ( fig. 37 ); this plant occurs also in Cyprus (type locality of T. pseudovirens ), Turkey, north-western Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel ( Klasea …, 2013). In Ukraine, T. pseudovirens was reared from flower heads of Klasea erucifolia (L.) Greuter & Wagenitz (syn. Serratula xeranthemoides M. Bieb. ) and Serratula radiata (Waldst. & Kit.) M. Bieb. (Korneyev, previously unpublished data).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Cyprus; southern part of Ukraine ( Korneyev, 1982); Israel ( Freidberg & Kugler, 1989); Russia (Korneyev & Evstigneev, 2006); Kazakhstan (Korneyev, unpublished data). First records from Iran and Greece.

Figures

Fig. 34–38. Tephritid flies (34–36, 38) and Klasea cerinthifolia, new host plant of T. pseudovirens, (37): 34 — Terellia odontolophi, Ơ, habitus, left; 35–36— T. pseudovirens, 37 — its host plant, Inula salicina, ♀; 38 — Euleia kovalevi (photo by E. Zarghani).