Noeeta bisetosa Merz, 1992

Mazzon, Luca, Whitmore, Daniel, Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Korneyev, Valery A., 2021, New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 69351-69351 : 69351

Noeeta bisetosa Merz, 1992

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 16; sex: 9 males and 7 females; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Noeeta bisetosa Merz , 1992; higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Noeetini ; genus: Noeeta ; specificEpithet: bisetosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Merz , 1992; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; locality: Val Cellina ; verbatimElevation: 290 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°10'11.8"N 12°40'02.7"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1699; decimalLongitude: 12.6674; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2006; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Hieracium piloselloides; eventDate: 10/07/2006; habitat: gravel streambed; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Austria ( Merz and Kofler 2008), Hungary ( Merz 2000), Russia ( Basov 1999), Switzerland ( Merz 1992) and Ukraine ( Korneyev 2003). The species (Fig. 2 a) is here recorded as new to Italy.

Biology

The larvae feed in flower heads of Hieracium piloselloides Vill. ( Merz 1992).