Terellia zerovae Korneyev, 1985

Evstigneev, D. A. & Boyko, N. S., 2024, New data on the morphology, distribution and host plants of three species of the Terellia virens group (Diptera: Tephritidae), Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 33 (1), pp. 106-115 : 113

Terellia zerovae Korneyev, 1985

( Figs 14, 31–35, 40)

Material examined. Russia, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Vladikavkaz , Nizhniy Lars Vill., 1 female and 2 males reared on 10–22.V.2021 from capitulum of Centaurea iberica collected on 7.VIII.2020.

Comments. In Russia, the larvae were found to develop in capitula of Centaurea iberica Trevir. ex Spreng (Fig. 50; see Addenda), the typical host plant of this species. Terellia zerovae is recorded from Russia for the first time.

Distribution. Tajikistan ( Korneyev, 1985), Greece, Romania, Turkey ( White, 1989), Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( Korneyev et al., 2013), Russia (new record).