Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Diptera (True flies) ➔ Family Tephritidae (Fruit flies)
Oxyna parietina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Beifuß-Bohrfliege Clouded Wormwood Fly
Synonyms and other combinations:
Musca parietina Linnaeus, 1758 | Oxyna cinerea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 | Tephritis fulvimaculata Shinji, 1939 | Tephritis pantherina Fallen, 1820 |
Classification:
Oxyna parietina belongs to the subfamily Tephritinae, tribe Tephritini.Distribution:
In parts of Europe.Habitat:
Meadows, forest edges, everywhere where the host plants of the larvae (Arthemisia) grow.Description:
Length 4 - 4.5 mmSimilar species:
The flies can easily be confused with other species whose wings are similarly patterned.Biology:
Oxyna parietina forms one generation per year. Adults of Oxyna parietina fly in May and June. After mating, females lay eggs into the stems of host plants belonging to the composite family. Known host plants are common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris), grand wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and field wormwood (Artemisia campestris). After one to two weeks the larvae hatch. They eat, develop and pupate in the stems. After overwintering in pupal stage, the adults hatch in May. They bore a hole into the stem and leave it.Natural enemies:
Pteromalus parietinae (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) - EndoparasitoidChlorocytus sp. (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) - Ectoparasite
References, further reading, links:
- Pape T. & Thompson F.C. (eds) (2017). Systema Dipterorum (version 2.0, Jan 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
- Ian M. White: Tephritid Flies Diptera: Tephritidae, Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 10, Part 5a, 1988, ISBN 0 901546 68 2.
- Plant Parasites of Europe
- Korneyev, Valery & Evstigneev, D. (2013). Key to European species of the genus Oxyna Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Tephritidae), with new records from Russia. Українська ентомофауністика 2013, 4(1) : 1–23
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