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Eutreta diana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subsection
  
Acalyptratae

Family
  
Tephritidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Tephritoidea

Subfamily
  
Tephritinae

Genus
  
Eutreta

Order
  
Fly

Eutreta diana is a species in the family Tephritidae, known as fruit flies in North America and picture wing flies in Europe. Females lay eggs in vegetative buds of several species and subspecies of sagebrush in western North America. 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). Growth of galls coincides with spring seasonal growth of sagebrush. There is one generation per year.

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Eutreta diana Wikipedia