MALICA CARAGANAE RICHTER (DIPTERA,TEPHRITIDAE,TRYPETINAE): REMARKS ON ITS BIOLOGY AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE 3RD INSTAR LARVA Severin V. KORNEYEV 1 & Valery A. KORNEYEV 2 1 the Ukrainian Entomological Society, c/o I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bohdan Chmielnicky str. 15, UA-01601, Kiev-30, MSP, Ukraine. E-mail: raptor@entom.freenet.kiev.ua 2 the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bohdan Chmielnicky str. 15, UA-01601, Kiev-30, MSP, Ukraine. E-mail: korval@entom.freenet.kiev.ua Malica caraganae Richter (Diptera, Tephritidae, Trypetinae): remarks on its biology and a description of the 3rd instar larva. - The Caragana bean fly, Malica caraganae Richter, was rediscovered in several localities in Kyrghyzia 20 years after its original description. Notes on its biology are given. The third instar larva is de- scribed and the adult is redescribed. Possible phylogenetic relationships inferred from larval morphology are discussed. M. caraganae is distantly related to the species of the predominantly African genus Notomma Bezzi, showing African relationships, which are not common for the fauna of Middle Asia. Keywords: Tephritidae - Malica caraganae - larva - Caragana - Middle Asia. INTRODUCTION Malica caraganae Richter is one of the most enigmatic species of Palaearctic Tephritidae. The species with very uncommon appearance and trophic connections was described only in 1974, and afterwards, not rediscovered for 20 years. It was reared from beans of Caragana turkestanica Kom. in Sary-Chelek Natural Reserve, Kyrghyzstan (Richter, 1974). No other Palaearctic fruit fly is known to be associated with fabaceous plants (except for Notomma mutilum (Bezzi) in Israel and Egygpt), and relationships of this monotypic genus remained vague even after terminalia of both sexes were described (Korneyev, 1996). It is known to occur so far only in Kyrghyzstan, and the only genus, which is believed to be related, is Notomma Bezzi from Africa. In the latter genus, larvae induce galls on twigs of Acacia (Munro, 1952). The subtribe Notommatina was established to include both Malica and Notomma and was assigned to Carpomyini (Korneyev, 1996), because of its similarity of male epandrium and surstyli with some Notomma and Rhagoletis Loew, but rela- tionships remained obscure. In 1994 and1995, further specimens were found among the material collected by L. V. Peck and P. Duelli in additional localities in Kyrghyzstan, and in June 1996 E. P. Kameneva and the second author (VAK) observed and collected numerous adult flies INSTRUMENTA BIODIVERSITATIS VII: 1-9; juin 2006