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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tropical Fruit Flies (Dacinae) » Bactrocera » Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae)
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Acalyptrate fly I think, but then...? - Bactrocera oleae - female
Copyright © 2018 Hartmut Wisch

Acalyptrate fly I think, but then...? - Bactrocera oleae - Female
Pasadena residence, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 29, 2018
Size: ~ 3mm
Would appreciate help with this fly!
Appendage is ovipositor, so a female. Bactrocera oleae?

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 6 December, 2018 - 5:06pm
Last updated 23 June, 2019 - 3:22pm

Moved
Moved from Fruit Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 23 June, 2019 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Hartmut Wisch, 6 December, 2018 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

Tephritidae
Tip of subcosta and long point in cell cup point to Tephritidae.
… John F. Carr, 6 December, 2018 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John!
You're correct!
Looking at my copy of Handbook of the Fruit Flies (1)
… Hartmut Wisch, 6 December, 2018 - 8:02pm login or register to post comments

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