Tephritis

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Tephritis is a genus of flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae.[10] Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections.[11] Tephritis occur throughout much of the world, but most are Palearctic.[10] They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra.[12] Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in the family Asteraceae, and a few species cause galls to form.[10][13]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
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Tephritis
Tephritis formosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephritini
Genus: Tephritis
Latreille, 1804[1]
Type species
Musca arnicae
Synonyms
  • Thephritis Wiedemann, 1828 (Missp.)[2]
  • Tephrytis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Missp.)[3]
  • Tephrites Gray, 1832 (Missp.)[4]
  • Trephritis Griffith & Pidgeon, 1832 (Missp.)[5]
  • Tephritus Ballou, 1926 (Missp.)
  • Tephritoides Benjamin, 1934[6]
  • Acrorellia Wang, 1990[7]
  • Terbita Bassov & Tolstoguzova, 1994[8]
  • Pangasella Richter, 1995[9]
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Tephritis can be distinguished from other fruit flies of the Tephritinae by the arrangement of setae on their bodies, among other characters.[14][15]

Species

The genus Tephritis includes the following species:[16]

Tephritis neesii
Tephritis bardanae
Tephritis conura

References

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