Abstract
BackgroundPrior to this study, 141 species of Tephritidae were known to occur in Italy.New informationItalian 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.
Highlights
Tephritidae is one of the largest families of cyclorrhaphous Diptera, with almost 5,000 named species predominantly found in the tropics
The European fauna is represented by at least 265 species belonging to three subfamilies: Dacinae, Tephritinae and Trypetinae
The analysis revealed the presence of hereditary symbiotic bacteria in Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790) (Capuzzo et al 2005) and in all studied species of the tribe Tephritini and the genus Noeeta Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Summary
Tephritidae is one of the largest families of cyclorrhaphous Diptera, with almost 5,000 named species predominantly found in the tropics
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