Rhagoletis cingulata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Tephritidae |
Tribe: | Carpomyini |
Subtribe: | Carpomyina |
Genus: | Rhagoletis |
Species: | R. cingulata |
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Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew, 1862) | |
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Rhagoletis cingulata, the eastern cherry fruit fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. [1] [2] [3] It is found over the entire middle and eastern region of the United States from Michigan to New Hampshire, southward to Florida and also in south-eastern and south-central Canada.