Ensina sonchi

Ensina sonchi
Ensina sonchi Netherlands
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Noeetini
Genus: Ensina
Species:
E. sonchi
Binomial name
Ensina sonchi
Synonyms

Ensina sonchi is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae, the gall flies. It is found in the Palearctic . The head is light yellow head. Greenish body with yellow villae. The disc of the mesonotum is blackish. Black mesophragm. The legs and halteres are dirty yellow. Wings vitreous or opaline. Abdomen black: tergites tightly yellow at posterior margin with black villi; rufous sternites; Macrochaetes yellowish. Oviscapte black, apex and sides rufous, with fine, yellowish villi. -Long. : 3-3.5 mm. The larvae feed on the flower heads of Asteraceae (Chondrilla juncea, Cirsium arvense, Cirsium vulgare, Hieracium umbellatum, Hypochaeris radicata Sonchus arvensis, Taraxacum officinale ....).