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Tribe Carpomyini

Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis pomonella - male ?Rhagoletis - Rhagoletis suavis fly - Rhagoletis striatella Small orange fly - Rhagoletis Suave tephritid - Rhagoletis suavis - female Rhagoletis striatella? - Rhagoletis striatella - male Rhagoletis cornivora - Rhagoletis Tephritoidea,from malaise trap - Rhagoletis basiola - female
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 Trypetinae
Tribe Carpomyini
Numbers
~40 spp. in 6 genera in our area, >120 spp. in 12 genera worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide, with ca. 2/3 of the spp. in the New World(1)