Rhagoletis

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Trypetinae Subtribe Carpomyina Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus		Family Tephritidae Tribe Carpomyiini Scientific name Rhagoletis Higher classification Tephritidae Order Fly

Lower classifications Apple maggot, Rhagoletis cerasi, Rhagoletis completa, Rhagoletis mendax, Rhagoletis zephyria

Rhagoletis completa fruit fly

Rhagoletis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about hundred species.

Dance of the rose hip fruit fly diptera tephritidae rhagoletis basiola

Name

Rhagoletis Fruit Fly Rhagoletis completa BugGuideNet

The genus name is partially derived from Ancient Greek rhago "a kind of spider". This possibly refers to the fact that at least R. pomonella mimics a jumping spider.

Species

Rhagoletis cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cingulata

Rhagoletis alternata (Fallén, 1814)

Rhagoletis basiola. (Osten Sacken, 1877)

Rhagoletis berberis. Jermy, 1961

Rhagoletis boycei. Cresson, 1929

Rhagoletis cerasi (Linnaeus, 1758) cherry fruit fly

Rhagoletis chionanthi. Bush, 1966

Rhagoletis cingulata. (Loew, 1862) eastern cherry fruit fly

Rhagoletis completa. Cresson, 1929 Walnut Husk Fly

Rhagoletis cornivora. Bush, 1966

Rhagoletis ebbettsi. Bush, 1966

Rhagoletis electromorpha. Berlocher, 1984

Rhagoletis fausta. (Osten Sacken, 1877)

Rhagoletis indifferens. Curran, 1932 cherry fruit fly

Rhagoletis juglandis. Cresson, 1920 walnut-husk-infesting fly

Rhagoletis jumiperina. Marcovitch, 1915

Rhagoletis meigenii (Loew, 1844)

Rhagoletis mendax. Curran, 1932 blueberry maggot

Rhagoletis osmanthi. Bush, 1966

Rhagoletis persimilis. Bush, 1966

Rhagoletis pomonella. (Walsh, 1867) apple maggot fly, railroad worm

Rhagoletis ribicola. Doane, 1898

Rhagoletis striatella. Wulp, 1899

Rhagoletis suavis. (Loew, 1862) Walnut Husk Maggot

Rhagoletis tabellaria. (Fitch, 1855)

Rhagoletis zephyria. Snow, 1894

Database

Tephritid Workers Database

Rhagoletis Rhagoletis cerasi chemticacom

References

Rhagoletis Wikipedia

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