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New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy
Luca Mazzon1, Daniel Whitmore2, Pierfilippo Cerretti3
1Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Padua, Italy Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua Padua Italy.
Background:
Prior to this study, 141 species of Tephritidae were known to occur in Italy.
New Information:
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.
