Myopites apicatus Diptera: Tephritidae - fruit fly
Myopites apicatus

Photographs on Pulicaria dysenterica, Common Fleabane

Host:
Pulicaria dysenterica

It now agreed that the the Myopites on Pulicaria dysenterica is Myopites apicatus and that M. inulaedysentericae only occurs on Inula hirta and I. salicina

The white larva in the lower photographs is possibly Torymoides kiesenwetteri, a known parasitoid of Myopites


Myopites apicatus

Myopites apicatus

Myopites apicatus
Myopites apicatus (NOT Myopites inulaedyssentericae)
BC Alners Gorse, Dorset. September 2018

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