Species Anastrepha suspensa - Caribbean Fruit Fly

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Fruit fly? - Anastrepha suspensa - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")

Superfamily Tephritoidea

Family Tephritidae (Fruit Flies)

Subfamily Trypetinae

Tribe Toxotrypanini

Genus Anastrepha

Species suspensa (Caribbean Fruit Fly)

Other Common Names

Greater Antilliean Fruit Fly, Guava Fruit Fly, Caribfly (1)

Explanation of Names

Anastrepha suspensa (Loew)

Size

up to 12–14 mm (1)

Range

FL to Puerto Rico (indigenous to the West Indies, adventive in FL) (1)

Food

larvae attack tropical and subtropical fruit (a total of 27 host spp. recorded); preferred hosts: Eugenia uniflora, Prunus persica, Psidium guajava, Syzygium jambos, Terminalia catappa (1)

Remarks

Earliest record in our area: FL 1930; believed to have been established in FL long before that (1)

Known to be parasitized by Diachasmimorpha longicaudata

Internet References

Fact sheet (Weems et al. 2012)(1)

Works Cited

1.	University of Florida: Featured Creatures

Contributed by v belov on 1 January, 2013 - 5:28pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 11 February, 2016 - 3:27pm

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