Tephritis postica (LOEW, 1844)

Soltanizadeh, Zohreh, Saghaei, Nazila & Ostovan, Hadi, 2015, A Contribution to the Fauna of Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran, Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 925-937 : 930-931

Tephritis postica (LOEW, 1844)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 13: Fars, Atabak, 29º46’N, 52º51’E, 24.v.2013, swept from flower heads of Onopordum acanthium L.

H o s t r e c o r d s f r o m I r a n: Onopordum acanthium L., O. leptolepis D.C. ( Asteraceae ) (MOHMMADZADE NAMIN et al. 2010c, KARIMPOUR 2011, MOHMMADZADE NAMIN & NOZARI 2011a).

H o s t s o u t s i d e I r a n: Onopordum cynarocephalum BOISS. & BLANCHE. O. acanthium L. ( Asteraceae ) (KUTUK & OZGUR 2003, KUTUK 2006).

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Esfahan, Hamadan, Kermanshah, Khorasan-e Razavi, Semnan, Tehran, Zanjan, Azerbaijan-e Sharghi ( GILASIAN 2007, MOHAMADZADEH NAMIN et al. 2010c, ZARGHANI et al. 2010a, Gharajedaghi et al. 2011c, GHARAJEDAGHI et al. 2012a,b), Ardebil ( MOHAMADZADE NAMIN et al. 2010a), Fars ( FAZEL et al. 2011), Kurdistan (MOHMMADZADE NAMIN & NOZARI 2011a), Azerbaijan-e Gharbi ( KARIMPOUr 2011).

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Europe, Western Asia (FREIDBERG & KUGLER 1989), France, Central Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, South to North Africa, Israel, Iran ( NORRBOM et al. 1998).