Urophora jaculata Rondani, 1870

El Harym, Y., Belqat, B. & Korneyev, V. A., 2020, The Fruit Flies Of Morocco: New Records Of The Tephritinae (Diptera, Tephritidae), Zoodiversity 54 (6), pp. 439-452 : 445

Urophora jaculata Rondani, 1870 ( fig. 5 )

Urophora mauritanica: El Harym & Belqat, 2017: 149 (misidentification).

Host plants. Urophora jaculata infests Centaurea solstitialis in Italy and mainland Greece and has been swept from other species of the subgenus Centaurea (Solstitiaria) (Cardueae) ( White & Korneyev, 1989) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Italy, Greece ( White & Clement, 1987; White & Korneyev, 1989). Records from Turkey and Caucasus ( Norrbom et al., 1999) are based on misidentifications of U. sirunaseva (Hering) (Korneyev & White, 1992) . Morocco (first record).

Remarks. This species was recorded by El Harym & Belqat (2017) as “ Urophora mauritanica ”, but after study of the aculeus was identified as U. jaculata .

Figures

Fig. 5. Urophora jaculata: a — male, b — female habitus, lateral view; c — aculeus, d — its apex, enlarged.