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 Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz, 1992 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: L. Mazzon ; individualCount: 17 ; sex: 8 males and 9 females ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon : scientificName: Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz , 1992; higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Tephritini ; genus: Tephritis ; specificEpithet: conyzifoliae; scientificNameAuthorship: Merz , 1992; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy ; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Trentino-Alto Adige Region ; county: Trento Province ; municipality: Moena ; locality: San Pellegrino Pass ; verbatimElevation: 1925 m ; verbatimCoordinates: 46°22'48.0"N 11°47'37.0"E ; decimalLatitude: 46.3800 ; decimalLongitude: 11.7936 ; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : identifiedBy: L. Mazzon ; dateIdentified: 2008; Event : samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Crepis conyzifolia ; eventDate: 28/07/2008 ; habitat: pasture; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Armenia ( Evstigneev and Glukhova 2020 ), Czechia, France, Italy, Switzerland ( Merz and Korneyev 2011 ), Russia ( Evstigneev 2016 ), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan ( Korneyev 2016a ), Poland ( Klasa and Palaczyk 2005 ), Tajikistan ( Korneyev and Korneyev 2019 ) and Ukraine ( Korneyev and Klasa 2016 ). Note: the present records from Italy (Fig. 2 c ) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011) . Biology The larvae develop in flower heads of Crepis conyzifolia (Gouan) A. Kern. ( Merz 1992 ), Cr. sibirica L. ( Shcherbakov 2001 , Korneyev 2016a ), Cr. pannonica (Jacq.) K. Koch ( Evstigneev 2016 ) and Cr. ciliata K. Koch ( Evstigneev and Glukhova 2020 ). Notes This species was recorded from continental Italy by Merz and Korneyev (2011) , without further collection data. Korneyev (2016a) treated T. conyzifoliae as a senior synonym of Tephritis academica Bassov and Tolstoguzova, 1994, T. nartshukovi Bassov and Tolstoguzova, 1994 and T. epicrepis Scherbakov, 2001, all described from Russia.