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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Acalyptratae » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Tephritini » Tephritis group » Trupanea

Genus Trupanea

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Cousins? Two of Two - Trupanea wheeleri Tep*hritis, right? Nope - Trupanea nigricornis Tep*hritis, right? Nope - Trupanea nigricornis Fruit Fly, 3 of 3 - Trupanea nigricornis Trupanea nigricornis? - Trupanea nigricornis - male Light Grey Picture-winged Fruit Fly - Trupanea bisetosa - male Fruit Fly - Trupanea eclipta - male Diptera - Trupanea actinobola
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Acalyptratae)
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Tephritidae (Fruit Flies)
Subfamily Tephritinae
Tribe Tephritini
No Taxon (Tephritis group)
Genus Trupanea
Numbers
~20 spp. in our area, ~220 spp. total(1)
Range
worldwide, almost half of the spp. in the New World(1); in our area, widespread but much more diverse in sw. US
Works Cited
1.Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) taxonomy pages, by A.L. Norrbom
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 7 February, 2007 - 12:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 14 March, 2012 - 6:22pm

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