Trypeta immaculata

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Tephritidae - Trypeta immaculata (male).JPG

| image_caption = Trypeta immaculata. Male

| genus = Trypeta

| species = immaculata

| authority = (Macquart, 1835)

| synonyms =

  • Terellia immaculata (Macquart, 1855)
  • Trypeta hamifera Loew, 1846.

}}

Trypeta immaculata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trypeta of the family Tephritidae.[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=672681#null ITIS][http://nomen.at/Trypeta Nomen.at - animals and plants][https://www.gbif.org/species/1628950 Global Biodiversity Information Facility]

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Distribution

This species is widespread in most of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands).[https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/b9adb71b-13b7-4aa4-a27d-621dd0ab69b9 Fauna Europaea]

Description

Trypeta immaculata have wings of about {{cvt|4.6|-|5.5|mm}}.Ho-Yeon Han, A. L. Norrbom [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43272877_A_systematic_revision_of_the_New_World_species_of_Trypeta_Meigen_Diptera_Tephritidae A systematic revision of the New World species of Trypeta Meigen (Diptera: Tephritidae)] These fruit flies have the hind femurs without any strong anteroventral subapical setae. The first flagellomere is apically rounded. Head shows two pairs of orbital setae.

Male without greatly enlarged frontal setae, and frons never extended forwards.I.M. White [https://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vol10_Part05a_White.pdf Tephritid Flies]

Biology

Adults can be found from mid. June to mid. August.[https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/736544-Trypeta-immaculata iNaturalist] Larvae are present in July and September–October.[https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/diptera/brachycera/tephritidae/trypeta/trypeta-immaculata/ Plant Parasites of Europe]

These fruit flies are almost oligophagous of Asteraceae plants. Main host plants are Aposeris foetida, Crepis paludosa, Hieracium species, Hypochaeris species, Lactuca muralis, Lapsana communis, Leontodon hispidus, Picris hieracioides, Pilosella officinarum, Prenanthes species, Scorzoneroides autumnalis, Senecio vulgaris, Sonchus arvensis, Taraxacum officinale. In the host plants larvae form leaf mines,

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