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Superfamily Tephritoidea

Tep*hritis, right? Nope - Trupanea nigricornis Physiphora? - Physiphora clausa Rhagoletis Who is this??? - Neotephritis finalis small yellow fly - Strauzia Picture-winged Fly - Delphinia picta Fruit Fly - Procecidochares atra - male Another DIptera - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Acalyptratae)
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Internet References
classification and links to info on families, plus some common names and a note on the subfamily Tachiniscinae now being placed in Tephritidae rather than being treated as its own family [Tachiniscidae] (Wikipedia)
Contributed by Richard Leung on 19 March, 2005 - 9:35pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 7 February, 2007 - 5:50pm

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