Tatyana:
Your specimen is Tephritis hurvitzi (Diptera: Tephritidae). Please check this paper by Murat Kutuk: the Genus Tephritis Latreille, 1804 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a Key to the Species of Tephritis in Turkey http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/tbtkzoology/article/view/5000027144
Rergads
Luis Miguel
Dear Tatyana,
The family is Tephritidae. I attached an identification handbook.
Regards,
Tephritidae, cf. gen. Tephritis, Trupanea...
Regards,
Rinaldo Nicoli
Hi, Tatyana. You have a good expert in Ukraine certainly in this group of flies. Please contact Dr. Valery Korneev at Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv., and show him your specimen(s)
Regards,
Nikolai
The Tephritidae have members in the US.- Check out this one in Bugguide.net. It is certainly a close relative of your individual.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1182134
Dear Tatyana,
Tephritidae has many variation of these group. In my country Indonesian, commonly Bactrocera dorsalis attacked fruit such as mangoes, starfruit and chili.
Please let me know what their host plant???
Please contact Dr. Valery Korneev at Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv., if you have further specimens on this group.
For your personal experiences, please visit and examine the images in the following gallery:
http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=52
Here's one from my garden last year (August 4, 2015). They're very pretty but very hard to photograph when moving.
Tatyana:
Your specimen is Tephritis hurvitzi (Diptera: Tephritidae). Please check this paper by Murat Kutuk: the Genus Tephritis Latreille, 1804 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a Key to the Species of Tephritis in Turkey http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/tbtkzoology/article/view/5000027144
Rergads
Luis Miguel
DearTatyana Nikulina,
Firstly I want to thank you for these fantastic photos.
I also want to thank Professor Luis Miguel Constantino for his always right answers.
I searched on the internet and found the attached articles. All of them confirmed that the insect is Tephritis hurvitzi as Luis said.
Hope that these articles are of value for you.
Regards,
Wafaa
Dear colleagues!
Thank you very much for your help to identify my fly! Also, thank you for the article, they were very important for me
Can not understand how I answer to specific comments, a particular specialist?
For Nikolai Yunakov: it is very difficult, you know. Send material to Ukraine impossible.
For Sri Nuraminah: we collected the fly to Ambrosia artenisifolia. We thought that it Euaresta bella, which is specially was brought to Europe in the last century for the biological control of Ambrosia artenisifolia. But our specimens were not similar to the flies image, which we found in internente.
(I hope that the I write accessibly, I do not speak English and the use of an automatic translation)
Dear Wafaa and Tatyana:
Thank you for the nice comments. To identify a species is not necessary to be a specialist in a particular insect group to correctly identify a species.The important thing is the interest and willingness of people to help other colleagues in identifying a species using taxonomic keys correctly . In my case I am an entomologist specialized in taxonomy and systematics of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, but experience in the classification of insects for many years allows me to identify species in other orders.
Regards,
Luis Miguel
Tatyana,
Don't worry about your English. It's amazing how much the new breed of translators can do!. It's like in Star Trek, where they have a universal translator. We don't have them for many greatly-used languages yet though.
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