The fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) of the Madeira archipelago with the description of a new Oedosphenella Frey Author Penado, Andreia Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, PT- 1749 - 016 Lisbon, Portugal Author Smit, John European Invertebrate Survey-the Netherlands / Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, the Netherlands https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1568 - 5183 Author Aguiar, António Franquinho Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola, Secretaria Regional de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, PT- 9135 - 372 Camacha, Madeira, Portugal & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9572 - 2967 Author Cravo, Délia Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola, Secretaria Regional de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural, PT- 9135 - 372 Camacha, Madeira, Portugal & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1804 - 9665 Author Rego, Carla Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, PT- 1749 - 016 Lisbon, Portugal & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8005 - 4508 Author Santos, Renata Tagis-Centro de Conservação das Borboletas de Portugal, PT- 7480 - 152 Avis, Portugal. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2026 - 0702 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, University of Azores, PT- 9700 - 042 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9087 - 091 X Author Boieiro, Mário text Zootaxa 2020 2020-07-13 4810 3 559 575 journal article 9283 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.11 34fa910e-bd20-460f-8343-cb7097ba4126 1175-5326 3943840 9A5ECB45-189F-47D3-9300-E19DF643EBCA Tephritis praecox (Loew, 1844) Material examined . Madeira : Ponta de São Lourenço ( 1 female , 2 males ); Desertas: Castanheira ( 1 female , 3 males ) . Remarks. Tephritis praecox can be found from Europe to Central Asia ( Mohamadzade Namin & Rasoulian 2010 ; Korneyev & Klasa 2016 ). It is a specialist species that breeds in plants of genus Calendula , such as the Madeiran endemic C. maderensis ( Smit 2006 ; Mohamadzade Namin & Rasoulian 2010 ).Although uncommon in Madeira archipelago, this species can be found in a wide range of habitats in the Canary Islands ( Merz 1992 ). The species is here reported for the first time from Desertas.