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Tephritis bardanae

Synonyms: Trupanea bardanae (homotypic); Trypeta confusa; Xyphosia arvensis; Xyphosia lappae

Wikipedia Abstract

Tephritis bardanae is a picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae, which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland). The larvae feed in the flower-heads (capitulae) of species of Arctium (burdocks), causing galls to form. The larvae pupates in autumn, forming a black puparium.
View Wikipedia Record: Tephritis bardanae

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Arctium minus (Common Burdock)[1]
Arctium nemorosum[1]
Arctium tomentosum (downy burdock)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Phytomyza lappae1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0