Faunistic studies on the fruit flies of the family Tephritidae in central part of Khorasan Razavi province

Subject Areas : Plant Pests

Fatima Memari ¹ (Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran)
Saeed Mohammadzade Namin ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran)
Masoud Hakimitabar ³ (Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran)

Received: 2014-12-23 Accepted : 2015-05-05 Published : 2015-05-22

Keywords: fauna, Tephritidae, Khorasan Razavi Province, Diptera,

Abstract :

Tephritidae is one of the largest families of acalyptrate Diptera. Most species are phytophagous and cause economical damage to agricultural crops and some of them effectively used in biological control programs against weeds. During studies on tephritid flies fauna in central part of Khorasan Razavi Province (Iran) in 2013–2015, 15 species of 10 genera (Acanthiophilus helianthi, Chaetorellia australis*, Chaetorellia conjuncta*, Euleia heraclei*, Goniurellia longicauda*, Tephritis pallescens*, Tephritis postica, Tephritomyia despoliata, Terellia serratulae, Trupanea amoena, Trupanea stellata, Urophora anthropovi, Urophora sp.near dirlbeki, Urophora spatiosa*, Valera ariana) were found to occur in this region. Species marked with asterisks are recorded for the first time from Khorasan Razavi province. The list of 33 species of fruit flies that occur in Khorasan Razavi province is provided