New records of flies of the genus Tephritis (Diptera: Tephritidae) from the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, with notes on other tephritid species Author Evstigneev, D. A. Author Przhiboro, A. A. text Zoosystematica Rossica 2021 Zoosyst. Rossica 2021-04-14 30 1 13 24 http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.13 journal article 57161 10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.13 330aebee-95eb-4338-8033-5b391b007275 2410-0226 10124230 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:715EA4BA-7CAD-4459-B1A6-9F9E10AEAF16 Tephritis mutabilis Merz, 1992 ( Figs 15–23 ) Material examined . Armenia , Gegharkunik Prov. , vicinity of Sevan Town , mountain side facing Sevan Psychiatric Hospital , 1 female and 1 male reared 21.VII.2017 from capitula of Leontodon asperrimus collected on 16.VII.2017 , 2 females and 3 males reared 25.VII.2017 from capitula of L. asperrimus collected on 16.VII.2017 , coll. D.A. Evstigneev . Russia , Republic of North Ossetia – Alania , Alagir Distr. , 3 km below Tsey station of cableway, bank of Tseyadon River , 3 males reared 16.VIII.2020 from capitula of Leontodon sp. collected on 14.VIII.2020 , 6 females and 1 male reared 19.VIII.2020 from capitula of Leontodon sp. collected on 14.VIII.2020 , coll. D.A. Evstigneev . Distribution . Austria , former Czechoslovakia (without further details), France , Germany , Italy , Switzerland ( Merz, 1992 , 1994 ), Russia (S. Korneyev, 2016b ), Ukraine (S. Korneyev & Klasa, 2016 ). Comments . In Russia , the species was known from Adygea in the western Caucasus (Evstigneev & S. Korneyev, 2018) and from Karachay-Cherkessia (S. Korneyev, 2016b , 2016c ) and Kabardino-Balkaria (Evstigneev & S. Korneyev, 2018) in the North Caucasus. Here we record it from North Ossetia . Tephritis mutabilis is recorded from Armenia and Transcaucasia at large for the first time. Merz, who described T. mutabilis , reared it from Leontodon hispidus L. ( Merz, 1992 , 1994 ). Here, we list the new host plant species, L. asperrimus (Willd.) Endl. The above-mentioned specimens are consistent with the diagnosis of T. mutabilis , including the reticular wing pattern, elongate spermathecae and incised apex of the aculeus ( Figs 15–23 ).