Desert Broom Gallfly

Aciurina thoracica

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae

Aciurina thoracica is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Aciurina of the family Tephritidae. It induces galls on plants from the genus Baccharis. Distribution United States, Mexico.

Distribution

Desert Broom Gallfly — (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 39

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionAciurina thoracica, Wikipedia contributors

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