Urophora

TaxID: 28620

Basic Information

Urophora

Canada Thistle Gall Fly

Urophora is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Diptera

Tephritidae

Urophora

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Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

Head slightly higher than long, yellowish to brownish, except occiput, ocellar tubercle, and slender part of arista black. Antenna yellow, scape with blackish setulae at dorso-apical margin. Ocellar, vertical, orbital, frontal and genal setae black and acuminate. Dorsocentral setae usually situated at or slightly anterior of line between supra-alar setae. Wing pattern reduced, without brown crossbands. Legs completely yellow, or in some species fore femur striped black dorsally. Posterior margin of abdominal tergites 5–6 in female with long black setae. Oviscape shiny black with black setulae, length of oviscape about two times as long as preabdomen. Tergite 5 of males about as long as 2–3 preceding tergites, and with long setae on posterior margin.

Source: NCBI Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

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