Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Tephritidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Diptera Genus Tephritis | |
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Similar Tephritis, Tephritis bardanae, Trupanea stellata, Tephritinae, Tephritis formosa | ||
Tephritis arnicae is a picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae, which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland).
The larvae feed in the flower-heads of species of Arnica montana, Doronicum grandiflorum, D. austriacum and D. hungaricum.
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