Ceratitis
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Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid
fruit flies with about 80 species. One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata
, the Mediterranean fruit fly.
The genus contains several subgenera:
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Tephritidae
Tephritidae is one of two fly families referred to as "fruit flies", the other family being Drosophilidae. Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila , which is often called the "common fruit fly". There are nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid...
fruit flies with about 80 species. One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata
Ceratitis capitata
Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly for short, is a species of fruit fly capable of causing extensive damage to a wide range of fruit crops...
, the Mediterranean fruit fly.
The genus contains several subgenera:
- AcropterommaAcropterommaAcropteromma is a subgenus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae....
- Ceratalaspis
- Ceratitis
- HoplolophomyiaHoplolophomyiaHoplolophomyia is a subgenus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae....
- Pardalaspis
- Pterandrus
Subgenus Acropteromma
- Ceratitis munroana (Bezzi)
Subgenus Ceratalaspis
- Ceratitis aliena (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis andranotobaka Hancock
- Ceratitis antistictica Bezzi
- Ceratitis argenteobrunnea Munro
- Ceratitis brucei Munro
- Ceratitis connexa (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis contramedia (Munro)
- Ceratitis cosyra (Walker)
- Ceratitis discussa Munro
- Ceratitis divaricata (Munro)
- Ceratitis dumeti Munro
- Ceratitis epixantha (Hering)
- Ceratitis grahami Munro
- Ceratitis guttiformis Munro
- Ceratitis hancocki De Meyer
- Ceratitis lentigera Munro
- Ceratitis lineata (Hering)
- Ceratitis lunata Munro
- Ceratitis marriotti Munro
- Ceratitis mlimaensis De Meyer
- Ceratitis morstatti Bezzi
- Ceratitis nana Munro
- Ceratitis neostictica De Meyer
- Ceratitis ovalis Munro
- Ceratitis paradumeti De Meyer
- Ceratitis quinaria (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis scaevolae (Munro)
- Ceratitis silvestrii Bezzi
- Ceratitis simi Munro
- Ceratitis stictica Bezzi
- Ceratitis striatella (Munro)
- Ceratitis sucini De Meyer
- Ceratitis turneri (Munro)
- Ceratitis venusta (Munro)
Subgenus Ceratitis
- Ceratitis brachychaeta Freidberg
- Ceratitis caetrata Munro
- Ceratitis capitataCeratitis capitataCeratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly for short, is a species of fruit fly capable of causing extensive damage to a wide range of fruit crops...
(WiedemannChristian Rudolph Wilhelm WiedemannChristian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann , was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist...
) - Ceratitis catoirii Guérin-Méneville
- Ceratitis cornuta (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis malgassa Munro
- Ceratitis manjakatompo Hancock
- Ceratitis pinax Munro
Subgenus Hoplolophomyia
- Ceratitis cristata (Bezzi)
Subgenus Pardalaspis
- Ceratitis bremii Guérin-Méneville
- Ceratitis cuthbertsoni (Munro)
- Ceratitis ditissima (Munro)
- Ceratitis edwardsi (Munro)
- Ceratitis hamata De Meyer
- Ceratitis munroi De Meyer
- Ceratitis punctata (Wiedemann)
- Ceratitis semipunctata De Meyer
- Ceratitis serrata De Meyer
- Ceratitis zairensis De Meyer
Subgenus Pterandrus
- Ceratitis acicularis (Munro)
- Ceratitis anonae Graham
- Ceratitis bicincta Enderlein
- Ceratitis chirinda (Hancock)
- Ceratitis colae Silvestri
- Ceratitis curvata (Munro)
- Ceratitis faceta Enderlein
- Ceratitis flexuosa (Walker)
- Ceratitis fulicoides (Munro)
- Ceratitis gravinotata (Munro)
- Ceratitis inauratipes (Munro)
- Ceratitis lepida (Munro)
- Ceratitis lobata Munro
- Ceratitis melanopus (Hering)
- Ceratitis pedestris (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis penicillata (Bigot)
- Ceratitis pinnatifemur Enderlein
- Ceratitis podocarpi (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis querita (Munro)
- Ceratitis rosa Karsch
- Ceratitis roubaudi (Bezzi)
- Ceratitis rubivora (Coquillett)
- Ceratitis tananarivana Hancock
- Ceratitis tripteris (Munro)
Subgenus unknown
- Ceratitis fasciventris (Bezzi)
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