Hypenidium roborowskii ( Becker, 1907 )

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 : 119-120

Hypenidium roborowskii ( Becker, 1907)

( Figs 8–14)

Material examined. Armenia, Ararat Prov., nr. Khor Virap monastery, stretch of rocky desert in hills, 2 females and 2 males reared 12.VIII.2018 from capitula of Lactuca orientalis collected on 3.VIII.2018 (coll. D.A. Evstigneev).

Distribution. China ( Becker, 1907), Armenia ( Zaitzev, 1947), Kazakhstan ( Richter, 1965), Syria, Iraq, Jordan (V. Korneyev & Dirlbek, 2000), Iran ( Gilasian & Merz, 2008), Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan (V. Korneyev et al., 2011), Turkey ( Koçak & Kemal, 2013; Yaran & Kütük, 2015).

Comments. Lactuca orientalis (Boiss.) Boiss. [syn. Scariola orientalis (Boiss.) Soják ] is recorded for the first time as a host plant of H. roborowskii . Previously Lactuca sp. (Mohamadzade Namin et al., 2010) and L. serriola L. ( Pourhaji et al., 2016) were recorded as host plants of this species. The morphological details of H. roborowskii are illustrated in Figs 8–14. There is a hyaline area in cell r 4+5: it is a continuation of broad hyaline area in cell m and it extends towards crossvein R-M ( Figs 8, 9, 13).

Tribe Tephritini