Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritid for ID

Posted by colinleb on 02-04-2022 10:31
#1

Is this Tephritis ruralis please? UK. 28 March 2022.

Posted by colinleb on 02-04-2022 10:32
#2

Dorsal view.

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 03-04-2022 21:05
#3

looks like T. crepidis / T. conyzifoliae / T. leontodontis

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 03-04-2022 21:09

Posted by colinleb on 04-04-2022 16:22
#4

Thank you for your thoughts Val. T. crepidis and T. conyzifoliae are not on the British list. Does not make either of them impossible but unlikely. According to White's key I think there is too much marking on the anal lobe, reaching vein a2, for it to be T. leontodontis? Here is a close up picture of the wing. Perhaps not enough marking for T. ruralis either, and on checking there really are no dark hairs on the tergites. So will have to stick at Tephritis sp. I think.

Posted by Ben Hamers on 15-04-2022 22:06
#5

I think it's Tephritis matricariae.

Ben

Posted by colinleb on 08-09-2022 07:11
#6

Thanks Ben.