†Tephritis sophus Gentilini and Korneyev 2006 (fruit fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Tephritidae
Full reference: G. Gentilini and V. A. Korneyev. 2006. Taxonomic names, in Fossil tephritoid flies (Diptera: Pallopteridae, Ulidiidae, Tephritidae) from the Upper Miocene of Monte Castellaro, Italy, and a review of fossil European tephritoids. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis 7:1-20
Belongs to Tephritis according to G. Gentilini and V. A. Korneyev 2006
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MTR 390, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Monte Castellaro (MTR collection), which is in a Messinian lagoonal marl in the Gessoso-solfifera Formation of Italy.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Monte Castellaro (MTR collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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