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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae)

Family Tephritidae - Fruit Flies

Tropical Fruit Flies · Tephritinae · Trypetinae · missing genera --tmp · unidentified gall on Polymnia

Subfamily Dacinae - Tropical Fruit Flies
California Medfly - Ceratitis capitata - male California Medfly - Ceratitis capitata - male Fruit Fly - Bactrocera oleae Ceratitis capitata - Mediterranean Fruit Fly??? - Ceratitis capitata - male Acalyptratae? It reminds me of an Olive Fruit Fly, but different - Bactrocera oleae - female Bactrocera oleae ? - Bactrocera oleae Acalyptrate fly I think, but then...? - Bactrocera oleae Olive Fruit Fly - Bactrocera oleae - female

Subfamily Tephritinae
Fruit Fly - Eutreta Neat Fly - Euaresta aequalis Crazy Fruit Fly on Weedy Thistle - Paracantha gentilis - female Diptera- Q Fly 1 on Yellow Thistle - Paracantha culta - female Fruit Fly - Sunflower Seed Maggot - Neotephritis finalis - female Small yellow fly with green eyes and black circles on its black-bordered wings - Icterica seriata Trupanea signata Tephritidae, Goldenrod Gall Fly gall size comparison - Eurosta solidaginis

Subfamily Trypetinae
fruit fly? - Rhagoletis suavis Fruit Fly - Rhagoletis cingulata Zonosemata vittigera? - Zonosemata vittigera - female barberry fly - Rhagoletis meigenii - female Mating Flies - Strauzia - male - female Fruit fly - Strauzia Paraterellia varipennis Paraterellia?

missing genera --tmp

unidentified gall on Polymnia
Stem Gall on Leafcup Flies in stem swellings, Polymnia Swellings, Polymnia


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