Procecidochares atra (summer and autumn generations)

Family: Tephritidae | Genus: Procecidochares
Detachable: bothi
Color: brown, white, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy, leafy
Abundance: abundant
Shape: globular, sphere, hemispherical, cluster, rosette, numerous, cup
Season: Summer, Fall
Alignment: erect, integral, leaning
Walls: thick
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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A revision of the two-winged flies of the genus Procecidochares in North America, with an allied new genus

Redescribed from numerous specimens. Twenty-nine specimens were reared from galls on Solidago at Great Falls, Va., by C. T. Greene (Hopkins No. 14819a)

...types of setigera include.... "from leafy rosulate galls on Solidago nemoralis" ... reared in Virginia, near Washington by Theo. Pergande from galls on Aster which deform the stem and dwarf the plant; other unreared types of setigera are from Bristol, R. I. (Burgess), southern Georgia (Morrison), Baldwin, Kans. (Bridwell); additional unreared specimens of atra are from La Fayette, Ind. (Aldrich), French Creek, W. Va. (F. E. Brooks), Cherryfield, Me. (F. H. Lathrop), Smiths Cove, Nova Scotia (C. A. Good), and ....

See [Procecidochares] minuta for Felt's specimens reared from Chrysothamnus in Utah.

PROCECIDOCHARES ATRA, variety AUSTRALIS, new variety
Described from three specimens. The type, a female, was reared at Waco, Tex., by W. Dwight Pierce, from head of Heterotheca subaxillaris; it emerged October 3, 1906. One male was collected at Llano, Tex., on October 23, 1905, by A. W. Morrill; the other was taken by sweeping at Orlando, Fla., on February 28, 1918, by G. G. Ainslie (Aldrich collection).

- J. M. Aldrich: (1929) A revision of the two-winged flies of the genus Procecidochares in North America, with an allied new genus©


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