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Senecio Gall Fly
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Senecio Gall Fly

Sphenella fascigera

Tephritis fascigera or the Senecio gall fly is a species of fruit fly that is endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the genus Tephritis of the family Tephritidae, one of two families that are called "fruit flies". Its grubs gall in stems and capitula of plants in the Senecio genus.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 397321.