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Ceratitis

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Ceratitis
Ceratitis capitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Dacinae
Tribe: Ceratidini
Genus: Ceratitis
Macleay, 1829

Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 80 species.[1] One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly.[2]

The genus contains several subgenera:

  • Acropteromma [in some schemes as own genus]
  • Ceratalaspis
  • Ceratitis
  • Hoplolophomyia
  • Pardalaspis
  • Pterandrus

Species

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Subgenus Acropteromma

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(see some as alternative spelling Ceratitis munroanum, elsewhere as protonym Acropteromma munroanum)

Subgenus Ceratalaspis

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(for Ceratitis pycnanthi (Ghesquière, 1942) see as synonym under Ceratitis striatella per Meyer, 1998)

Subgenus Ceratitis

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(note for Ceratitis antistictica see subgenus Ceratalaspis).

Subgenus Hoplolophomyia

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Subgenus Pardalaspis

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Subgenus Pterandrus

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References

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  1. Aluja, Martin; Norrbom, Allen, eds. (1999). Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior. doi:10.1201/9781420074468. ISBN 978-0-429-12467-9.
  2. Copeland, R.S.; Wharton, R.A.; Luke, Q.; Meyer, M. de; Lux, S.; Zenz, N.; Machera, P.; Okumu, M. (2006). "Geographic Distribution, Host Fruit, and Parasitoids of African Fruit Fly Pests Ceratitis anonae, Ceratitis cosyra, Ceratitis fasciventris, and Ceratitis rosa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Kenya". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (2). ISSN 0013-8746.
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