Tephritis carmen Hering, 1937 (fig. 7, e)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Rif: forest house (sweeping), 04.07.2020, 1 Ơ (El Harym).

Host plant. Larvae induce gregarious galls in Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (L.) Zaika, Sukhor. & N.Kilian (= Scorzonera hispanica L.) (Cichorieae) FLower heads (Merz, 1994; Freidberg & Kütük, 2002).

Distribution. Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland; Turkey (Merz, 1994; Özgür & Kütük, 2003). Morocco (first record). First record from North Africa.