Tephritomyia lauta ( Loew, 1869 )

Evstigneev, D. A. & Glukhova, N. V., 2020, First records of two species of Tephritidae and one species of Platystomatidae (Diptera) from Transcaucasia, Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 29 (1), pp. 155-161 : 158-159

Tephritomyia lauta ( Loew, 1869)

( Figs. 9–15 )

Material examined. Armenia, Vayots Dzor Prov., between Yeghegis Vill. and Smbataberd fortress, mountain side disturbed by grazing animals, 7 females and 10 males reared 23.VII.2019 from capitula of Echinops sp. collected on 21.VII.2019.

Comments. Previously T. lauta was not record- ed from Armenia, but it was known from the bordering countries: Iran (Freidberg & Kugler, 1989; Mohamadzade Namin & Korneyev, 2018) and Turkey ( Kütük, 2008; Morgulis et al., 2016). The diagnostic characters of T. lauta are illustrated in Figs 9–15 . Host plant is illustrated in Figs 28–30 (see the Addenda section).

Figures

Figs 9–15. Tephritomyia lauta, details of male (10, 11) and female (9, 12, 13, 14, 15). 9 – female wing; 10 – glans of phallus; 11 – male habitus (in lateral view); 12 – aculeus; 13 – apical part of aculeus; 14 – female abdomen (in dorsal view); 15 – female head (in lateral view).