| Tephritis | |
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| 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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