Terellia uncinata White, 1989

Evstigneev, D. A. & Glukhova, N. V., 2022, Tephritid flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia: new records and new host plants, Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 31 (1), pp. 118-129 : 122

Terellia uncinata White, 1989

( Figs 37–43)

Material examined. Armenia: Erevan, vicinity of Erebuni fortress, 1 female reared 18.VII.2017 from capitulum of Centaurea solstitialis collected on 7.VII.2017 (coll. D.A. Evstigneev); Kotayk Prov., near pre-Christian pagan temple of Garni in Garni Vill. , 1 female and 3 males reared 31.III–12.IV.2020 from capitula of Centaurea solstitialis collected on 9.VIII.2019 (coll. D.A. Evstigneev).

Distribution. Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Turkey (White, 1989) and Iran ( Karimpour, 2011; V. Korneyev et al., 2013).

Comments. This species is recorded from Armenia and Transcaucasia for the first time. The morphological details of T. uncinata are illustrated in Figs 37–43.The members of Terellia virens species–group reliably differ from each other in the shape of glans of the phallus. White (1989) described T. uncinata , recorded Centaurea solstitialis L. as its host plant, and designated a male reared from C. solstitialis in Italy (Puglia, San Severo) as the holotype. Terellia uncinata became the third species in the Terellia virens species–group specified by V. Korneyev (1985), in addition to T. virens (Loew, 1846) and T. zerovae Korneyev, 1985 . The latter species was described from specimens collected in Dushanbe ( Tajikistan); a male reared from the capitulum of Centaurea iberica Trevir. ex Spreng was designated as the holotype. Subsequently, three more species from T. virens species– group were described (V. Korneyev et al., 2013): T. freidbergi V. Korneyev, 2013 , associated with capitula of C. behen L., T. ivannikovi V. Korneyev et Evstigneev, 2013 , associated with capitula of C. chartolepis Greuter (syn. Chartolepis intermedia Boiss ), and T. whitei V. Korneyev et Mohamadzade Namin, 2013 , associated with capitula of various species of the genus Cousinia .