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Eurosta

Eurosta is a genus of gall maker flies in the family Tephritidae. There are seven species in the genus, all in North America.

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Eurosta
Eurosta solidaginis female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Dithrycini
Genus: Eurosta
Loew, 18731
Type species
Acinia solidaginis
Fitch, 18552
Synonyms
  • Durosta Cook, 19083
  • Eurostina Curran, 19324
Eurosta solidaginis larva source ↗

Eurosta is a genus of gall maker flies in the family Tephritidae (known as fruit flies in North America and picture wing flies in Europe).5 There are seven species in the genus, all in North America.

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References

  1. Loew, Hermann (1873). "Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 11: vii + 351 +XIII pp., 4 pls. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. Fitch, A. (1855). "Report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of New York. [I]". Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society. (1854) 14: 705–880.
  3. Cook, M.T. (1908). "The insect galls of Indiana". Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 1907: 88–98. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19418. hdl:2022/12881. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Wiedemann, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm (1830). Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten. Vol. 2. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  7. Wulp, F.M. van der (1867). "Eenige Noord-Americaansche Diptera". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 10: 125–164, pl. 3–5. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  8. Snow, W.A. (1894). "Descriptions of North American Trypetidae, with notes. Paper I". The Kansas University Quarterly. 2: 159–174, 2 pls.
  9. Steyskal, G.C.; Foote, R.H. (1977). "Revisionary notes on North American Tephritidae (Diptera), with keys and descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 79: 146–155. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  10. Loew, H. (1862). "Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part I.". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 6 (1 [= No. 141]): xxiv + 221.
  11. Zurovchak, Joseph G.; Shealer, David A. (1996). "Mortality Sources of Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae) Inhabiting Single versus Double-Galled Stems of Goldenrod". American Midland Naturalist. 136 (1). The University of Notre Dame: 94–100. doi:10.2307/2426634. JSTOR 2426634.