Strauzia longipennis

Taxobox
name = Sunflower Maggot Fly

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Tephritoidea
familia = Tephritidae
subfamilia = Trypetinae
tribus =
genus = "Strauzia"
species = "S. longipennis"
binomial = "Strauzia longipennis"
binomial_authority = (Wiedemann, 1830] )
synonyms = *"Strauzia armata" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Strauzia inermis" Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*"Tephritis trimaculata" Macquart, 1843
*"Trypeta cornifera" Walker, 1849
*"Trypeta cornigera" Walker, 1849
*"Trypeta longipennis" Wiedemann, 1830
*"Trypeta longipennis var. confluens" Loew, 1873
*"Trypeta longipennis var. typica" Loew, 1873
*"Trypeta sepentaria" Harris, 1835
*"Trypeta septenaria" Osten Sacken, 1858
*"Trypeta serpentaria" Johnson, 1925

"Strauzia longipennis" is a large species of tephritid fruit fly known by the common name Sunflower Maggot Fly. It is a minor pest being a plant miner of sunflowers and related plants, damage within flower receptacle from larval feeding on spongy tissue is usually light.

Adults are about 6 mm long and a wing length of approximately 7 mm. (reasonably large for a Tephritid) The body is creamy-white and the wings have a mottled yellowish-brown appearance, with distinct F shaped marking near the wing tips. The larvae are yellowish-white in colour reaching a length of about 5 mm. and spends around 30 days feeding within the host plant before overwintering in the soil as a pupae. Adult are found from mid-July through to August.

Their are two other species of Tephritid fly known as Sunflower Maggot, these are "Gymnocarena diffusa" which feeds on stem pith and "Neotephritis finalis" which feeds on the sunflower seeds.

External links

* [http://www.cirrusimage.com/fly_fruit_Strauzia.htm Cirrus Image Site on Sunflower Maggot Flies]