Genus Rhagoletis

Classification · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis basiola - female

Fly on Cherries - Rhagoletis indifferens

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Acalyptratae)

Superfamily Tephritoidea

Family Tephritidae (Fruit Flies)

Subfamily Trypetinae

Tribe Carpomyini

Genus Rhagoletis

Numbers

25 spp. in our area, ~70 spp. total(1)

Range

New World (2/3 of spp.) + Eurasia(1)

Remarks

see remarks on spider-mimicking here

Works Cited

1.	Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) taxonomy pages, by A.L. Norrbom

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 April, 2005 - 11:59pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Hollenbeck, v belov
Last updated 14 March, 2012 - 6:52pm

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