Tephritis hendeliana Hering, 1944

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 : 120

Tephritis hendeliana Hering, 1944

( Figs 16–22)

Material examined. Armenia, Gegharkunik Prov., nr. Berdkunk Vill., shore of Lake Sevan contaminat- ed with excreta of farm animals, 6 females and 2 males reared 2.VIII.2021 from capitula of Carduus nutans collected on 1.VIII.2021 (coll. D.A. Evstigneev).

Distribution. Kazakhstan, Mongolia ( Richter, 1965, 1970), France ( Foote, 1984), central European part of Russia ( Richter, 1970), Moldova (V. Korneyev & Kameneva, 1992), Italy, Germany, Switzerland ( Merz, 1994), Hungary ( Merz, 2000), Andorra ( Merz, 2001), Iran (Mohamadza- de Namin, 2011), Turkey ( Koçak & Kemal, 2013), Albania, Ukraine (S. Korneyev, 2016).

Comments. Tephritis hendeliana is recorded from Armenia and Transcaucasia for the first time. The larvae were found to develop in the capitula of Carduus nutans L. (syn. C. thoermeri Weinm. ), a typical host plant of this species. The morphological details of T. hendeliana are illustrated in Figs 16–22; they are in agreement with the diagnosis of the species. The glans of the phallus of T. hendeliana ( Fig. 20) is illustrated for the first time.