Genus Trypeta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Fruit Fly maybe? - Trypeta flaveola - female

Anthomyiid? miner of Senecio triangularis - Trypeta flaveola

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 Trypetini

Subtribe Trypetina

Genus Trypeta

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

New World spp. revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Trypeta Meigen 1803

Numbers

5 spp. in our area, ~60 spp. worldwide(1)

Identification

key to spp. in(1)

Range

holarctic, Neotropical (south to Costa Rica), & Oriental, ~half of the spp. in the Palaearctic; in our area, T. flaveola is widespread, the rest are confined to w./sw. US(1)

Food

on Asteraceae

Works Cited

1.	A systematic revision of the New World species of Trypeta Meigen (Diptera: Tephritidae) Han H., Norrbom A.L. 2005. Systematic Entomology. 30: 208-247 .

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 24 May, 2012 - 9:20pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 13 June, 2013 - 2:49pm

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