Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sinai. Tephritidae 4?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 13-02-2006 19:22
#1
About 4-5mm.
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1222-1.jpg

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 13-02-2006 19:28
#2
And all Tephritidae, excluding the first one, which was by Paul excluded out of Tephritidae (but included one more with bad image so far, which looks like another sp. of Trupanea with lesser piont on wing) may be found on only one plant. Brush 0,5 -3m. May be somebody knows this wonderful Tephritidae feeding plant?
www.diptera.info/forim/5-1222-2.jpg

Posted by John Smit on 14-02-2006 10:26
#3
Indeed looks like a Trupanea.
No idea on the species or the host-species.

John

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 15-02-2006 13:21
#4
The plant is most probably Calotropis procera (Asclepiadaceae).