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Euaresta tapetis (Coquillett)

Recognition
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Euaresta tapetis differs from all other Euaresta species in having a narrow isolated brown band from the center of cell c to the posterior wing margin, the hyaline area area adjoining it distally uninterrupted or at most narrowly interrupted. In other species this brown area is incomplete and/or broadly connected to more distal brown parts of the wing pattern. The bulla in cell r₄₊₅ may be present or absent (Foote et al. 1993).

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Subfamily: Tephritinae. Genus: Euaresta. Species: tapetis. Author: Coquillett.
Relationships among the species of Euaresta were analyzed by Norrbom (1993). Click here for more detailed discussion of Euaresta phylogeny. Euaresta tapetis has been placed in the bullans species group.

Names Used for this Species
Trypeta (Euaresta) tapetis Coquillett 1894: 75.
Trypeta tapetis: Cockerell 1898: 155.
Euaresta tapetis: Doane 1899: 191.
Euaresta tapsetus Snow 1903: 219. missp. tapetis Coquillett.
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Type Data
Syntypes - Male & female (USNM), USA: New Mexico.

Distribution
Euaresta tapetis is known from USA (Washington, Wyoming & Nebraska, south to northeastern California, Arizona & New Mexico).
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Biology
The host plants of E. tapetis are unknown, although it presumably breeds in female flowers of one or more species of Ambrosia.

Economic Significance
Euaresta tapetis is not considered an economically significant species.

References
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Aldrich, J. M. 1905. A catalog of North American Diptera (or two-winged flies). Smithson. Misc. Collect. 46(2): 680 p. [p. 613, in catalog]
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1898. Contributions to the entomology of New Mexico. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 7: 149-156. [p. 155, N. Mex.]
Coquillett, D. W. 1894. New North American Trypetidae. Can. Entomol. 26: 71-75. [p. 75, description]
Cresson, E. T., Jr. 1907. Some North American Diptera from the Southwest. Paper II. Trypetidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. (Phila.) 33: 99-108. [p. 105, N. Mex.]
Doane, R. W. 1899. Notes on Trypetidae with descriptions of new species. J. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 7: 177-193. [p. 191, distribution]
Foote, R. H. & F. L. Blanc. 1963. The fruit flies or Tephritidae of California. Bull. Calif. Insect Surv. 7: 117 p. [p. 22, review, Calif.]
Foote, R. H. 1965. Family Tephritidae, p. 658-678. In A. Stone, C. W. Sabrosky, W. W. Wirth, R. H. Foote & J. R. Coulson, eds., A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. U.S. Dep. Agric. Agric. Handb. 276: 1696 p. [p. 665, in catalog]
Foote, R. H., F. L. Blanc & A. L. Norrbom. 1993. Handbook of the fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America north of Mexico. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca. 571 p. [review, USA]
Norrbom, A. L. 1993. New species and phylogenetic analysis of Euaresta Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a key to the species from the Americas south of Mexico. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 95: 195-209. [phylogenetic relationships]
Norrbom, A. L., L. E. Carroll, F. C. Thompson, I. M. White & A. Freidberg. 1999. Systematic database of names, pp. 65-251. In F. C. Thompson (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. Myia (1998) 9, vii + 524 pp. & Diptera Data Dissemination Disk (CD-ROM) (1998) 1. [p. 145, in catalog]
Quisenberry, B. F. 1950. The genus Euaresta in the United States (Diptera: Tephritidae. J. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 58: 9-38. [p. 22, revision]
Snow, F. H. 1903. A preliminary list of the Diptera of Kansas. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull. 2: 211-223. [p. 219, Kans.]
Tucker, E. S. 1907. Some results of desultory collecting of insects in Kansas and Colorado. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull. 4: 51-111. [p. 105, Colo.]

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