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 Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: V. Girolami ; individualCount: 2 ; sex: 1 male and 1 female ; lifeStage: adult ; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon : scientificName: Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Urophora ; specificEpithet: cuspidata; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy ; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region ; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; locality: Via Vals ; verbatimElevation: 320 m ; verbatimCoordinates: 46°11'6.43"N 12°43'55.33"E ; decimalLatitude: 46.1851 ; decimalLongitude: 12.7320 ; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : dateIdentified: 2007; Event : samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa ; eventDate: 15/07/2006 ; habitat: grassland; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: V. Girolami ; individualCount: 2 ; sex: 2 females ; preparations: dry whole insect; Taxon : scientificName: Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826); higherClassification: Subfamily Tephritinae , Tribe Myopitini ; genus: Urophora ; specificEpithet: cuspidata; scientificNameAuthorship: (Meigen, 1826); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy ; countryCode: I; stateProvince: Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region ; county: Pordenone Province ; municipality: Fanna ; locality: Via Vals ; verbatimElevation: 320 m ; verbatimCoordinates: 46°11'6.43"N 12°43'55.33"E ; decimalLatitude: 46.1851 ; decimalLongitude: 12.7320 ; georeferenceSources: Google Maps ; Identification : dateIdentified: 2007; Event : samplingProtocol: reared from flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa ; eventDate: 26/06/2007 ; habitat: grassland; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Northern, central and eastern Europe from northern Spain, southern France and Italy ( Merz 1994 , Merz and Korneyev 2011 ) to Ukraine, European and Asian Russia and Kazakhstan ( Korneyev and White 1996 ); Iran ( Mohamadzade Namin and Nozari 2011 ). Notes: the present records from Italy (Fig. 1 c ) confirm the country-level record by Merz and Korneyev (2011) . The record from Turkey by Kuetuek et al. (2013) needs confirmation. Biology The larvae develop in flower heads of Centaurea scabiosa L. (incl. ssp. Centaurea scabiosa alpestris ) and Ce. collina L. ( White and Korneyev 1989 ); records of other host species, including " Ce. tenuifolia " ( Merz 1994 ) need confirmation.