Aciurina thoracica
Desert Broom Gall formed by Aciurina thoracica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Dithrycini
Genus: Aciurina
Species:
A. thoracica
Binomial name
Aciurina thoracica
Curran, 1932[1]

Aciurina thoracica is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Aciurina of the family Tephritidae.[2] It induces galls on plants from the genus Baccharis. [3]

Distribution

United States, Mexico.

References

  1. ↑ Curran, Charles Howard (1932). "New species of Trypaneidae, with key to the North American genera" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (556): 1–19. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database". Myia. 9: vii + 524.
  3. ↑ Korneyev, Valery A. (2021-08-12). "Gall-Inducing Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): Evolution and Host–Plant Relations". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Frontiers Media SA. 9. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.578323. ISSN 2296-701X.
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