Myopites longirostris (Loew, 1846)

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 : 444-445

Myopites longirostris (Loew, 1846) ( figs 3–4 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: Oued Tahaddart, reared from Limbarda crithmoides longifolia , 26.08.2019, 4 ♀; 29.01.2020, 1 ♀; 03.02.2020, 2 Ơ, 2 ♀; 11.02.2020, 1 Ơ, 3 ♀; 17.02.2020, 3 Ơ; 23.02.2020, 1 Ơ, 26.02.2020, 1 ♀; 1 ♀ ; 02.03.2020, 1 ♀ (El Harym); Douar Kouf, reared from Pulicaria odora , 21.05.2019, 3 Ơ, 3 ♀; 22.05.2019, 23 Ơ, 8 ♀; 23.05.2019; 37 Ơ, 36 ♀, 27.05.2019, 106 Ơ, 153 ♀ (El Harym); Mkhinak, net sweeping, 09.06.2019, 1 ♀ (El Harym).

Host plants. In this study specimens were reared from Limbarda crithmoides subsp. longifolia (Arcang.) Greuter ( fig. 3 ) and Pulicaria odora (new host plant) ( fig. 4 ). Larvae induce almost woody galls in receptacles of Limbarda crithmoides (L.) Dumort ( Hendel, 1927; Séguy, 1934).

Distribution. Bulgaria, Croatia, France (mainland), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Spain (Balearic Is.), United Kingdom; Morocco (first record). First record from North Africa.

Figures

Fig. 3. Myopites longirostris from Limbarda crithmoides subsp. longifolia: a–f — adult insects, showing variability of body and wing pattern (a–d — habitus, lateral view, e–f — abdomen; a, b, e — male, c, d, f — females); g — aculeus, h — its apex, enlarged; i — coastal salty marsh with j — L. crithmoides, host plant; k — 2nd instar larva of M. longirostris in the FLower head of L. crithmoides.

Fig. 4. Myopites longirostris from Pulicaria odora: a — female, habitus, lateral view; b — male, habituslateral view; c — aculeus, d — its apex, enlarged; e —male genitalia, ventral; f — host plant.