Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Tephritoidea

Neotephritis finalis (Loew) - Neotephritis finalis Signal Fly - Platystoma seminationis Picture-winged Flies - Chaetopsis Picture-winged Fly   - Delphinia picta Eurosta comma Lonchaeidae? Wide-eyed Picture-winged Fly - Ceroxys latiusculus Fruit Fly - Eutreta novaeboracensis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily Tephritoidea
Numbers
8 families in our area(1), 10 total (the two missing exotic families include ~13 spp. between them)
Range
worldwide
Print References
Sueyoshi, Masahiro (2005). Comparative Morphology of the Male Terminalia of Tephritidae and other Cyclorrhapha. Isr. J. Entomol. 35:477-496 (PDF)