5mm. Brown-bodied with highly patterned wings. The female oviscape is hairy at the base and has dull red patches on the sides. A gall-forming fruitfly in the flowerheads of plants in the Asteraceae family, particularly Crepis.

Other Tephritis species. Can be separated by careful examination of the wing pattern.

with a detailed image of the wing.

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All year (overwinters in evergreen vegetation).

Uncommon.

Rare or under-recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Clemons, L. (2000) Tephritis matricariae (Loew, 1844) (Dip.: Tephritidae) new to Britain and breeding in East Kent. Entomologists Record And Journal Of Variation, 112(5), 225-230.