Family
Tephritidae (Fruit flies)
Rhagoletis completa. Photo: (c) Don Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY)
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The Tephritidae family does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila (in the family Drosophilidae), which is often called the “common fruit fly”. Nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid fruit fly are categorized in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description, recategorization, and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To…
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