New and confirmed records of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Italy Author Mazzon, Luca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8459-893X Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Padua, Italy lmazzon@unipd.it Author Whitmore, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6051-5925 Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Author Cerretti, Pierfilippo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-3352 Department of Biology and Biotechnology ' Charles Darwin', Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Author Korneyev, Valery A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-1038 I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv, Ukraine text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-08-31 9 69351 69351 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69351 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e69351 1314-2828-9-e69351 89EFA07270265DF1A3A6B324DEB8A8EA Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: L. Mazzon ; individualCount: 5 ; sex: 4 males and 1 female ; lifeStage: adult, reared from immature stages ; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon : scientificName: Inuromaesa maura (Frauenfeld, 1857); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Inuromaesa ; specificEpithet: maura; scientificNameAuthorship: (Frauenfeld, 1857); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy ; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region ; county: Pordenone Province ; locality: Montereale Val Cellina ; verbatimElevation: 1100 m ; verbatimCoordinates: 46°10'00.0"N 12°36'00.0"E ; decimalLatitude: 46.1668 ; decimalLongitude: 12.6000 ; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : identifiedBy: L. Mazzon ; dateIdentified: 2005; Event : samplingProtocol: from flower heads of Inula hirta ; eventDate: 25/06/2005 ; habitat: edge of forest; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Austria, Czechia, central and southern France, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, northern Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine ( Merz and Korneyev 2011 ); Russia: West Siberia; Kazakhstan ( Korneyev and White 1999 ); Iran ( Zarghani et al. 2016 ). Note: the present records from Italy (Fig. 1 b ) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011) . Biology The larvae develop in the achenes of Pentanema hirtum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula hirta ), Pentanema oculus-christi (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula oculus-christi ) ( Frauenfeld 1857 ), Pentanema montanum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula montana ) ( Anonymous 1934 ), Pentanema ensifolium (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula ensifolia ) ( Mihalyi 1960 , Korneyev and White 1991 ) and Pentanema salicinum (L.) D.Gut.Larr. et al. (= Inula salicina ) ( Richter 1988 ), forming no obvious galls.