Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritis ID --> Tephritis leontodontis
Posted by maroo on 04-10-2017 07:32
#1
Is this wingpattern familiar fore anyone here?!
From southern Sweden last week
Martin Oomen
Edited by maroo on 05-10-2017 10:31
Posted by maroo on 04-10-2017 07:33
#2
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Posted by Carlo Monari on 04-10-2017 08:13
#3
It fits well with
Tephritis matricariae (Loew, 1844)
Posted by maroo on 04-10-2017 12:38
#4
Thanks Carlo
I agree that the pattern fits T matricariae quite well. A probleme is that I can't find any ohter records of this species in the a large Swedish database. Do you Carlo (or anyone else) know if this species recently changed name or are there other species in northern Europe that is possible/more likely?!
Best regards
Martin
Posted by Carlo Monari on 05-10-2017 07:46
#5
I checked on Systema Dipterorum and it should still be a valid name. (last record update 2012).
Posted by Fred Fly on 05-10-2017 07:56
#6
I think that this is a typical T. leontodontis.
Regrads
Piet
Posted by maroo on 05-10-2017 10:31
#7
You're problaby right here Piet!
Thanks!
/Martin
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 05-10-2017 15:24
#8
The problem of De Geer's names is that Chris Thompson (1993) misinterpreted them all as unnecessary replacement names for the Linnean names (and thus the synonyms), but they certainly are not, at least some. And this is the matter why
leontodontis is not considered to be a valid name. I believe it needs a plenary power to conservate it.
And -- yes, it is T. leontodontis -- and not matricariae!
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 05-10-2017 15:25