Ceratitis

Ceratitis
Ceratitis capitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Dacinae
Tribe: Ceratidini
Genus: Ceratitis
Macleay, 1829

Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 80 species.[1] One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly.[2]

The genus contains several subgenera:

  • Acropteromma [in some schemes as own genus]
  • Ceratalaspis
  • Ceratitis
  • Hoplolophomyia
  • Pardalaspis
  • Pterandrus

Species

Subgenus Acropteromma

(see some as alternative spelling Ceratitis munroanum, elsewhere as protonym Acropteromma munroanum)

Subgenus Ceratalaspis

(for Ceratitis pycnanthi (Ghesquière, 1942) see as synonym under Ceratitis striatella per Meyer, 1998)

Subgenus Ceratitis

(note for Ceratitis antistictica see subgenus Ceratalaspis).

Subgenus Hoplolophomyia

Subgenus Pardalaspis

Subgenus Pterandrus

References

  1. ^ Aluja, Martin; Norrbom, Allen, eds. (1999). Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior. doi:10.1201/9781420074468. ISBN 978-0-429-12467-9.
  2. ^ Copeland, R.S.; Wharton, R.A.; Luke, Q.; Meyer, M. de; Lux, S.; Zenz, N.; Machera, P.; Okumu, M. (2006). "Geographic Distribution, Host Fruit, and Parasitoids of African Fruit Fly Pests Ceratitis anonae, Ceratitis cosyra, Ceratitis fasciventris, and Ceratitis rosa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Kenya". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (2). ISSN 0013-8746.

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