Urophora stylata (Fabricius, 1775)
on Cirsium
Cirsium vulgare, Hardenberg, 25.x.2019 © Arnold Grosscurt
Cirsium vulgare, Nuth, Puttersdael, 17.x.2019 © Arnold Grosscurt: larva
Germany, Saarland, Bexbach © Volker Fäßler: larva in the galled receptacle
puparium
imago
Cirsium arvense © Peter Harris, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Bugwood.org
gall
the receptacle is strongly thickened and sclerified and contains several larvae, each one in its own cell.
host plants
Asteraceae, oligophagous
Arctium lappa; Carduus nutans, pycnocephalus; Cirsium arvense, creticum & subsp. gaillardotii, eriophorum, erisithales, palustre, phyllocephalum, serrulatum, vulgare; Centaurea calcitrapa, iberica; Echinops spinosissimus; Galactites tomentosus; Notobasis syriaca; Onopordum illyricum; Xanthium spinosum.
A reference to Dittrichia viscosa by Tomasi (2014a) is certainly erroneous.
synonyms
Euribia stylata
parasitoids, predators
references
Baugnée (2006a), Béguinot (2006a), Bellmann (2012a), Bland & Rotheray (1994b), Buhr (1964b), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Dirlbeck & Dirlbeck (1994a), Houard (1909a), Karimpour (2011a), Kütük, Yaran, Torbali, ao (2019a), Marshall (2017a), Merz & Kofler (2008a), Mohamadzade Namin, Nozari & Rasoulian (2010a), Neuenschwander & Freidberg (1983a), Niblett (1940a), Redfern (1968a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roskam (2009a), Smit (2010), Spooner & Bowdrey (2012a), Tomasi (2003a, 2014a), White (1988a), White & Korneyev (1998a).