''Tephritis fascigera'' or the Senecio gall fly is a species of fruit fly that is endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the genus ''

Tephritis ''Tephritis'' is a genus of fly, flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae. Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections. ''Tephritis'' occur throughout much ...

'' of the family Tephritidae, one of two families that are called "fruit flies". Its grubs

gall Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...

in stems and capitula of plants in the '' Senecio'' genus.

References

Tephritinae Diptera of New Zealand Insects described in 1931 {{Tephritis-stub