Terellia oasis (Hering, 1938)

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 : 450

Terellia oasis (Hering, 1938) ( figs 10 , f–g)

Squamensina oasis Hering, 1938: 405 .

Terellia oasis: Norrbom et al., 1999: 222 .

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: Douar Halila (Marabout), net sweeping, 10.06.2018, 1 ♀ (El Harym).

Host plant. Swept from Mantisalca salmantica (L.) Briq. & Cavill., which is believed to be its host plant .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Algeria (type locality); Morocco (first record) .

Remarks. Terellia oasis (Hering, 1938) is closely related to T. vectensis (Collin, 1937) from Great Britain and to T. pseudovirens (Hering, 1940) from the Near East and South-Eastern Europe, which sometimes are considered to be synonyms, differing from each other by the host plants, as well as wing and abdominal patterns, but not by the structure of male and female genitalia. Their actual taxonomic status needs additional studies involving DNA sequencing.

Figures

Fig. 10. Terellia luteola (a–e) and T. oasis (f–g): a–b, f — female, c–d — male (a, c — habitus, lateral view; b, d, f — dorsal view), e — host plant (Carthamus lanatus); g — wing.