Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992

Evstigneev, D. A. & Korneyev, S. V., 2018, New And Little-Known Species Of The Genus Tephritis Latreille (Diptera, Tephritidae) From Kabardino-Balkaria And Adygea (Russia), Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 9 (4), pp. 5-15 : 9

Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992 ( Fig. 3)

Material. Russia: Republic of Adygea, Maykop district, Lagonak highland, reared from Crepis sibirica L., coll. 11.08.2014 ― em. 13– 17.08.2014, 18 ♂, 21 ♀ ; Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Elbrus district, Cheget mountain (h = 2 100–2 150 m), reared from C. sibirica , coll. 20.07.2014 ― em. 08.2014, 4 ♂, 3 ♀ (D. Evstigneev leg.) .

Comments. Merz (1992; 1994) described this species from Switzerland and recorded Crepis conyzifolia as a host plant. In European Russia, T. conyzifoliae was reared from flower heads of Crepis sibirica and C. pannonica ( Evstigneev, 2016) . Recently three nominal species of

Tephritis have been synonymized with T. conyzifoliae : T. academica Bassov & Tolstoguzova, 1994 , T. nartshukovi Bassov & Tolstoguzova, 1994 , and T. epicrepis Shcherbakov, 2001 (see: Korneyev, 2016a). Shcherbakov (2001) also recorded this species (as T. epicrepis ) as reared from C. sibirica in southern Siberia.

Distribution. Czech Republic, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland ( Korneyev, 2016b).

Host plants. Crepis conyzifolia (Gouan) A. Kern , C. sibirica L., and C. pannonica (Jacq.) K. Koch.