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Fruit Flies
Tephritidae
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The Tephritidae family does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila (in the family Drosophilidae), which is often called the "common fruit fly". Nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid fruit fly are categorized in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description, recategorization, and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To...
16 branches of this family, most-observed first
Tephritinae
subfamilyTephritinae
Trypetinae
subfamilyTrypetinae
Cucurbit Fruit Flies
subfamilyDacinae
Phytalmiinae
subfamilyPhytalmiinae
Blepharoneurinae
subfamilyBlepharoneurinae
Angelogelasinus
genusAngelogelasinus
Chenacidiella
genusChenacidiella
Urelliosoma
genusUrelliosoma
Acrotaeniacantha
genusAcrotaeniacantha
Esacidia
genusEsacidia
Muhabbetiella
genusMuhabbetiella
Colobostroter
genusColobostroter
Agallamyia
genusAgallamyia
Alujamyia
genusAlujamyia
Nemeurinus
genusNemeurinus
Sinacidia
genusSinacidia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47990.