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SeparataTephritid fly

Tephritis separata

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Description:

Tephritis is a genus of flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae. Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections. Tephritis occur throughout much of the world, but most are Palearctic. They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra.Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in the family Asteraceae, and a few species cause galls to form.

Tephritis can be distinguished from other fruit flies of the Tephritinae by the arrangement of setae on their bodies, among other characters.
The pictured SeparataTephritid fly just landed on my hand, while I was sitting at a cafe in Kato Gatzea fishing boat dock, Pagasitikos gulf, Greece. I snapped the pics and she flew away.
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