Tephritis mutabilis 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

Tephritis mutabilis Merz, 1992

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Girolami; individualCount: 3; sex: 1 males and 2 females; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon: scientificName: Tephritis mutabilis Merz , 1992; higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Tephritini ; genus: Tephritis ; specificEpithet: mutabilis; scientificNameAuthorship: Merz , 1992; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; verbatimElevation: 280 m; verbatimCoordinates: 46°11'12.3"N 12°44'39.7"E; decimalLatitude: 46.1867; decimalLongitude: 12.7444; georeferenceSources: Google Maps; Identification: identifiedBy: L. Mazzon; dateIdentified: 2007; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Leontodon hispidus; eventDate: 28/05/2007; habitat: grassland; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Central Europe (Austria, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland) ( Merz and Korneyev 2011), Finland ( Kahanpää and Winqvist 2014), Russia ( Korneyev 2016b) and Ukraine ( Korneyev and Klasa 2016). Note: the present records from Italy (Fig. 2 d) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev 2011.

Biology

The larvae feed in flower heads of Leontodon hispidus L. ( Merz 1992, Merz 1994).