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Fruit, Signal, and Picture-winged Flies
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Fruit, Signal, and Picture-winged Flies

Tephritoidea

The Tephritoidea are a superfamily of flies. The following families are included:

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10 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Fruit Flies

familyTephritidae

Picture-winged Flies

familyUlidiidae

Signal Flies

familyPlatystomatidae

Lance Flies

familyLonchaeidae

Scarab Pursuing Flies

familyPyrgotidae

Flutter-wing Flies

familyPallopteridae

Richardiidae

familyRichardiidae

Cheese Skipper Flies and Allies

familyPiophilidae

Ctenostylidae

familyCtenostylidae

Tachiniscidae

familyTachiniscidae

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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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 62006.