New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco
Author
Harym, Younes El
0000-0002-6852-6602
LESCB URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
elharym.younes@gmail.com
Author
Korneyev, Valery
0000-0001-9631-1038
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, 01054 Kyiv, Ukraine and Museum f ¸ r Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
valery.korneyev@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-30
5360
4
487
514
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5360.4.2/52130
journal article
276124
10.11646/zootaxa.5360.4.2
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1175-5326
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Family
Tephritidae
The majority of
Tephritidae
are phytophagous, feeding on fruits, stems, leaves or flowers of several plant families (
Hancock
et al
. 2021
).
Dacinae
occur predominantly in palaeotropics, with the exception of species spread by humans. Many species of the subfamily
Tephritinae
breed in flower heads, although many form galls in stems, roots or flowers of
Asteraceae
,
Lamiaceae
,
Acanthaceae
or some other plant families (
White & Elson-Harris 1992
).
Actually, 121 species are known from North Africa and distributed in three subfamilies (
El-Hawagry 2017
;
El Harym & Belqat 2017
;
El Harym
et al
. 2022
), and four species are newly recorded in the present paper. The
Dacinae
are represented by 12 species and 5 genera of the tribes
Ceratitidini
(2 genera and 2 species) and
Dacini
(2 genera and 9 species). The
Tephritinae
is the richest subfamily present, with 102 species belonging to seven tribes having been recorded:
Tephritini
(14 genera, 55 species), Terelliini (3 genera, 14 species),
Noeetini
(2 genera, 2 species),
Tephrellini
(6 genera, 8 species),
Myopitini
(2 genera, 16 species),
Dithrycini
(1 genus, 6 species),
Schistopterini
(1 genus, 1 species). The
Trypetinae
is poorly represented by only four genera and seven species. In
Morocco
, the total number of species known is 70, these species belong to 3 subfamilies, 10 tribes and 30 genera:
Dacinae
(2 tribes, 4 genera and 5 species),
Tephritinae
(6 tribes, 23 genera and 61 species) and
Trypetinae
(2 tribes, 3 genera and 4 species) (
El Harym
et al
. 2022
).