Tephritis formosa

Taxobox
name = "Tephritis formosa"

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image_caption = "Tephritis formosa"
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 = Tephritini
genus = "Tephritis"
species = "T. formosa"
binomial = "Tephritis formosa"
binomial_authority = (Loew, 1844)
synonyms = *"Trypeta formosa" Loew, 1844

"Tephritis formosa" is a European species of tephritid fly also known by the common name Gall Fly (a huge number of other flies also use this common name). Adults females are about 5-6mm in length with wings of about 4-5mm, males are slightly smaller being about 4-5mm in length with wings of about 4-4.5mm. The host plants for the larva are Hawksbeard, Cat's ear [Cite journal|author=Kutuk, M|year=2005 |month= |title=The Fauna and Systematics of the Genus Tephritis Latreille, 1804 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a Key to the Species of Tephritis in Turkey|pages=345-356pp |publisher=The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey|journal= Turkish Journal Of Zoology|volume= 30|issue= |location = Ankara, Turkey | language = English| issn = ISSN 1303-6114] and Sow-thistle flower heads, causing galls to form.

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