| Tephritis arnicae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Genus: | Tephritis |
| Species: | T. arnicae |
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Tephritis arnicae (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Tephritis arnicae is a picture-winged fly of the family Tephritidae, which are variously known as fruit-flies (North America) or gall flies (Britain and Ireland).
The larvae feed in the flower-heads of species of Arnica montana,Doronicum grandiflorum, D. austriacum and D. hungaricum.