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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Acrotaeniini » Tomoplagia

Genus Tomoplagia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Tephritidae - Tomoplagia like? - Tomoplagia cressoni - female Fruit fly - Tomoplagia obliqua - male Tephritidae on Ironweed - Tomoplagia obliqua Tephritidae on Ironweed - Tomoplagia obliqua Yellow fruit fly with spots - Tomoplagia obliqua Arizona Fly for ID - Tomoplagia - female Male, Tomoplagia cressoni? - Tomoplagia cressoni - male Male, Tomoplagia cressoni? - Tomoplagia cressoni - male
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 Tephritinae
Tribe Acrotaeniini
Genus Tomoplagia
Explanation of Names
Tomoplagia Coquillett 1910
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, almost 50 total(1)(2)
Tomoplagia cressoni Aczel, 1955: Southwestern US
Tomoplagia obliqua (Say, 1830): Arizona east to New York & Florida
Identification
"The wings of both species are distinctive among all U.S. tephritids in bearing yellow and white brown bands that lie at about a 45 degree angle to the longitudinal axis of the wing, somewhat similar in general appearance to the wing pattern of Peronyma."(2)
Range
Neotropical genus, with 2 spp. ranging into the US(1)
Works Cited
1.Norrbom A.L. (2004-2010) Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) taxonomy pages
2.Handbook of the Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America North of Mexico
Richard H. Foote, P. L. Blanc, Allen L. Norrbom. 1993. Cornell University Press (Comstock Publishing).
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 13 November, 2006 - 6:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Spencer_pote
Last updated 17 August, 2021 - 4:43pm

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