Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857)

Mazzon, Luca, Whitmore, Daniel, Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Korneyev, Valery A., 2021, New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 69351-69351 : 69351

Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L. Mazzon; individualCount: 5; sex: 4 males and 1 female; lifeStage: adult, reared from immature stages; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Inuromaesa ; specificEpithet: maura; scientificNameAuthorship: (Frauenfeld, 1857); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; locality: Montereale Val Cellina ; verbatimElevation: 1100 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°10'00.0"N 12°36'00.0"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1668; decimalLongitude: 12.6000; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2005; Event: samplingProtocol: from flower heads of Inula hirta; eventDate: 25/06/2005; habitat: edge of forest; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Austria, Czechia, central and southern France, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, northern Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine ( Merz and Korneyev 2011); Russia: West Siberia; Kazakhstan ( Korneyev and White 1999); Iran ( Zarghani et al. 2016). Note: the present records from Italy (Fig. 1 b) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011).

Biology

The larvae develop in the achenes of Pentanema hirtum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula hirta ), Pentanema oculus-christi (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula oculus-christi ) ( Frauenfeld 1857), Pentanema montanum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula montana ) ( Anonymous 1934), Pentanema ensifolium (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula ensifolia ) ( Mihalyi 1960, Korneyev and White 1991) and Pentanema salicinum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula salicina ) ( Richter 1988), forming no obvious galls.