[5] This species is present in most of Europe, in European Russia and in the East Palearctic ecozone.

[6][7] These flies inhabit meadows, gardens and where the host plants grow.

Terellia tussilaginis can reach a body length of about 5 millimetres (0.20 in).

These fruit flies have a pale green yellow body with distinctive brown banding on its wings.

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