| Acidia | |
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| Acidia cognata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Trypetinae |
| Tribe: | Trypetini |
| Genus: | Acidia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 |
Acidia is a small genus of flies in the family Tephritidae. It formerly contained many species, [1] but by some authors has since been restricted to two. [2]
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila, 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 distinguish them from the Drosophilidae, the Tephritidae are sometimes called peacock flies, in reference to their elaborate and colorful markings. The name comes from the Greek τεφρος, tephros, meaning "ash grey". They are found in all the biogeographic realms.
The Tephritoidea are a superfamily of flies. It has over 7,800 species, the majority of them in family Tephritidae.
The Blepharoneurinae are a subfamily of the fruit fly family Tephritidae comprising five genera and 34 species.
Carpomya is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Zonosemata is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae, comprising six species from North America and one from South America. The species are as follows:
Tephritites is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. It may be a synonym of Hyalotephritis.
Machaomyia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. It is believed to be a synonym of Acidiella.
Nearomyia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. It is considered a synonym of Myopites.
Neomyoleja is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. It is considered a synonym of Aischrocrania.
Problepharoneura is a fossil genus of Tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae for the sole species, Problepharoneura antiqua, described on the basis of single male specimen found in Upper Eocene amber from the Dominican Republic.
Ceratodacus priscus is a species of prehistoric fly, which probably belongs in the family Tephritidae. It is known from a single male fossil, preserved in Dominican amber from the El Mamey Formation of the Cordillera Septentrional. The species is characterised by the presence of long setulae on the arista.
Goedenia is a genus of the family Tephritidae, better known as fruit flies.
Neomyopites is a genus of the family Tephritidae, better known as fruit flies.
Spinicosta is a genus of the family Tephritidae, better known as fruit flies.
Freidbergia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Stelladesis is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Tephrodesis is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Trupanodesis is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Myopitini is a tribe of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Freidbergia mirabilis is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Freidbergia of the family Tephritidae.