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New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy

2021; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 9; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3897/bdj.9.e69351

1314-2836

Luca Mazzon, Daniel Whitmore, Pierfilippo Cerretti, V. A. Korneyev,

Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Prior to this study, 141 species of Tephritidae were known to occur in Italy.Italian records of nine species of the family Tephritidae (Diptera) are provided. Five species, Eurasimonastigma (Loew, 1840), Noeetabisetosa Merz, 1992, Campiglossadoronici (Loew, 1856), Xyphosialaticauda (Meigen, 1826) and Rhagoletisberberidis Jermy, 1961 are recorded from Italy for the first time, whereas four species, Inuromaesamaura (Frauenfeld, 1857), Urophoracuspidata (Meigen, 1826), Tephritisconyzifoliae Merz, 1992 and T.mutabilis Merz, 1992, previously recorded in the Fauna Europaea database without reference to collection material, are confirmed and supplemented with host plant data and other collection data.