Eutreta diana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Eutretini |
| Genus: | Eutreta |
| Species: | E. diana
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| Binomial name | |
| Eutreta diana (Osten-Sacken, 1877)[1]
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Eutreta diana is a species in the family Tephritidae, known as fruit flies in North America and picture wing flies in Europe.[4] Females lay eggs in vegetative buds of several species and subspecies of sagebrush in western North America.[5] Larvae induce woody galls near their oviposition site and feed on the plant internally until they mature. Adults have "pale green eyes, white-dotted black wings, and bright red abdomens" (Goeden 1990).[5] Growth of galls coincides with spring seasonal growth of sagebrush. There is one generation per year.
Distribution
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Osten Sacken, C.R. (1877). "Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California". Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 3 (189–354). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.57939.
- ^ Curran, Charles Howard (1932). "New species of Trypaneidae, with key to the North American genera" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 556: 1–19. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Snow, W.A. (1894). "Descriptions of North American Trypetidae, with notes. Paper I". The Kansas University Quarterly. 2: 159–174, 2 pls.
- ^ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
- ^ a b Goeden, R. D. (1990). "Life history of Eutreta diana (Osten Sacken) on Artemisia tridentata Nuttall in southern California (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 66 (1): 24–32.