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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Picture-winged Flies (Ulidiidae) » Otitinae » Myennidini » Pseudotephritina

Genus Pseudotephritina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
ornate band-winged fly - Pseudotephritina - female Pseudotephritis vau? - Pseudotephritina - female Pseudotephritina cribellum ? - Pseudotephritina - female Pseudotephritina cribellum ? - Pseudotephritina - female Fly - Pseudotephritina Fly - Pseudotephritina gray picture-winged fly - Pseudotephritina picture-winged fly - Pseudotephritina - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Family Ulidiidae (Picture-winged Flies)
Subfamily Otitinae
Tribe Myennidini
Genus Pseudotephritina
Explanation of Names
Pseudotephritina Malloch 1931
Numbers
2 spp., both in our area(1)(2)
Range
much of the US (NY-VA-MS-TX to MT-WY-CA) + QC & AB(2)
Food
mainly on poplar and willow, rarely on pear trunks(2)
Remarks
The two species can be distinguished by(2)
cribellum: large and small black spots in middle of scutum and smaller spots on scutellum (maybe unreliable), second dorsocentral seta large, mostly eastern
inaequalis: only small spots in middle of scutum and larger spots on scutellum (maybe unreliable), second dorsocentral seta small, mostly western
Works Cited
1.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 2
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1987. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
2.Myennidini, a new tribe of the subfamily Otitinae (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with discussion of the suprageneric classification...
Kameneva E., Korneyev V. 2006. Isr. J. Entomol. 35-36: 497-586.
Contributed by Keith Bayless on 1 April, 2007 - 9:53pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 15 February, 2018 - 2:03pm

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