Family: Tephritidae (fruit flies) - University of Florida.
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 world, but most are Palearctic. They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra. Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in.
Harris (1994), and the currently acknowledged classification was presented by Norrbom et al. (1999). the genus Ceratitis Macleay,. tephritidae) from africa 3 Results phylum arthropoda Siebold, 1884 Class insecta linnaeus, 1758 order Diptera linnaeus, 1758 Family tephritidae Macquart, 1835 Subfamily Dacinae Schiner, 1864 tribe Ceratitidini Bezzi, 1910 genus Ceratitis Macleay, 1829 Ceratitis.
Wing of male of Euarestoides acutangulus from Foote and Steyskal (1981, fig. 35). References Foote R.H., Steyskal G.C. (1981) Tephritidae. in: McAlpine J.F. (Ed.
The family Tephritidae, the true fruit flies, includes over 4000 species, which are among the most economically important pests attacking soft fruits worldwide (White and Elson-Harris, 1992). From an economic perspective, fruit flies (1) inflict extensive direct damage to fruits and vegetables, (2) cause quarantine restrictions on infested areas, (3) require that commercial fruits undergo.
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families known as fruit flies.The other family is the Drosophilidae. There are nearly 5,000 species of tephritid fruit fly in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To distinguish them from the Drosophilidae, the Tephritidae are sometimes called 'peacock flies'.
Interpretive Summary: The family Tephritidae (fruit flies) includes numerous pests of fruits and vegetables, in the U.S. (e.g., apple maggot) and worldwide (e.g., the Mediterranean, South American, and Oriental fruit flies). Other species are beneficial as biological control agents of weedy plants, including more than a dozen species released in the United States for this purpose. The first.
Tephritidae Pamilya sa mga langaw ang Tephritidae (1). Ang Tephritidae sakop sa kahanay nga langaw, klase nga insekto, ka-ulo nga mananap nga dinugtongan, ug kaginharian nga mananap. (1).