Trupanea amoena (von Frauenfeld, 1857)
(a gall fly)

Interactions where Trupanea amoena is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Achillea millefolium	Yarrow	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Achillea millefolium/	Achillea millefolium	yarrow	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Glebionis segetum	Corn Marigold	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Glebionis segetum/	Glebionis segetum	corn marigold	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Calendula officinalis	Pot Marigold	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Calendula officinalis/	Calendula officinalis	pot marigold			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Carthamus tinctorius	Safflower	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Carthamus tinctorius/	Carthamus tinctorius	safflower			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Centaurea	knapweeds and star-thistles	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Centaurea/	Centaurea	knapweeds and star-thistles			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Centaurea calcitrapa	Red Star-thistle	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Centaurea calcitrapa/	Centaurea calcitrapa	red star-thistle	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Lactuca saligna	Least Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lactuca saligna/	Lactuca saligna	least lettuce	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Lactuca sativa	Garden Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lactuca sativa/	Lactuca sativa	garden lettuce	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Lactuca serriola	Prickly Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lactuca serriola/	Lactuca serriola	prickly lettuce			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Lactuca virosa	Greater Lettuce, Great Lettuce	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Lactuca virosa/	Lactuca virosa	greater lettuce, great lettuce	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Picris	ox-tongues	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Picris/	Picris	ox-tongues			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Picris hieracioides	Hawkweed Ox-tongue	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Picris hieracioides/	Picris hieracioides	hawkweed ox-tongue	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Sonchus arvensis	Perennial Milk-thistle, Perennial Sow-thistle	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Sonchus arvensis/	Sonchus arvensis	perennial milk-thistle, perennial sow-thistle	?		capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Sonchus asper	Prickly Sow-thistle	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Sonchus asper/	Sonchus asper	prickly sow-thistle			capitulum
larva		larva feeds within capitulum			Sonchus oleraceus	Smooth Sow-thistle	Asterales: Asteraceae	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), White, I.M., 1988	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tephritidae/Trupanea amoena/	Trupanea amoena	a gall fly				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Asterales/Asteraceae/Sonchus oleraceus/	Sonchus oleraceus	smooth sow-thistle			capitulum

Author & Year	Title	Source
White, I.M., 1988	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 10. Part 5a, 134pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Trupanea amoena (a gall fly) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Trupanea amoena (a gall fly) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Trupanea amoena (a gall fly)
Family	TEPHRITIDAE (gall-flies, greater fruit flies)
Superfamily	TEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Trupanea amoena is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Trupanea amoena (a gall fly)

Trupanea amoena (a gall fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TEPHRITIDAE
(gall-flies, greater fruit flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Trupanea amoena (a gall fly):

TEPHRITIDAE
(gall-flies, greater fruit flies)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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