Terellia virens (Loew, 1846)

Harym, Younes El & Belqat, Boutaina, 2017, First checklist of the fruit flies of Morocco, including new records (Diptera, Tephritidae), ZooKeys 702, pp. 137-171 : 139

Terellia virens (Loew, 1846)

Literature records.

Morocco, High Atlas: Jbel Ayachi ( White 1989), Tizi-n-Talrhemt ( Korneyev et al. 2013). First record for the Anti Atlas.

New record.

Morocco, Anti Atlas: Airport Sidi Ifni, 2♂♂, 17-V-2015; Oued Ouarzazate, 5♂♂, 12-VI-2015 (net sweeping)- 1♀, 01-VII-2015 (reared).

Host plants.

Flower heads of Centaurea calcitrapa L. from which the specimens were reared.

World distribution.

Tunisia, Albania, Afghanistan, Austria, Bulgaria, Corsica, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, USA ( Séguy 1930, Kütük and Yaran 2011, Gharajedaghi et al. 2012, Korneyev et al. 2013).