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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Tephritini » Tephritis group » Tephritis » Tephritis rufipennis

Species Tephritis rufipennis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Tephritid - Tephritis rufipennis
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 Tephritini
No Taxon (Tephritis group)
Genus Tephritis
Species rufipennis (Tephritis rufipennis)
Explanation of Names
Tephritis rufipennis Doane 1899
Identification
wing pattern distinctive: the apex has a hyaline "cresent", and there are two transverse dark bands, each with small scattered hyaline spot... the bands nearly entirely separated by a central hyaline band [see Plate IV:8, Fig. 87 in(1), and Fig. 425 in(2)]
Range
California(3), coastal & adjacent (map)
Food
collected on Baccharis pilularis, and present in areas with abundant Baccharis
Works Cited
1.The fruit flies or Tephritidae of California
R.H. Foote, F.L. Blanc. 1963. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 7: 1-117.
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).
3.Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5
Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 8 February, 2017 - 10:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 March, 2017 - 5:41pm

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