| Tephritis | |
|---|---|
|   | |
| Tephritis formosa | |
|  Scientific classification   | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Diptera | 
| Family: | Tephritidae | 
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae | 
| Tribe: | Tephritini | 
| Genus: |  Tephritis  Latreille, 1804 [1]  | 
| Type species | |
|  Musca arnicae  | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tephritis is a genus of flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae. [10] Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections. [11] Tephritis occur throughout much of the world, but most are Palearctic. [10] They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra. [12] Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in the family Asteraceae, and a few species cause galls to form. [10] [13]
Tephritis can be distinguished from other fruit flies of the Tephritinae by the arrangement of setae on their bodies, among other characters. [14] [15]
The genus Tephritis includes the following species: [16]
 
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