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Sunflower Maggot Fly
Strauzia longipennis
Strauzia longipennis is a large species of tephritid fruit fly known by the common name sunflower maggot fly. It is a minor pest being a plant miner of sunflowers and related plants, damage within flower receptacle from larval feeding on spongy tissue is usually light.
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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 322166.