Ceratitis

Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 80 species.[1] One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly.[2]

Ceratitis
Ceratitis capitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Dacinae
Tribe: Ceratidini
Genus: Ceratitis
Macleay, 1829

The genus contains several subgenera:

  • Acropteromma
  • Ceratalaspis
  • Hoplolophomyia
  • Pardalaspis
  • Pterandrus

Species

Subgenus Acropteromma
  • Ceratitis munroana (Bezzi)

Subgenus Ceratalaspis
  • Ceratitis aliena (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis andranotobaka Hancock
  • Ceratitis antistictica Bezzi
  • Ceratitis argenteobrunnea Munro
  • Ceratitis brucei Munro
  • Ceratitis connexa (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis contramedia (Munro)
  • Ceratitis cosyra (Walker)
  • Ceratitis discussa Munro
  • Ceratitis divaricata (Munro)
  • Ceratitis dumeti Munro
  • Ceratitis epixantha (Hering)
  • Ceratitis grahami Munro
  • Ceratitis guttiformis Munro
  • Ceratitis hancocki De Meyer
  • Ceratitis lentigera Munro
  • Ceratitis lineata (Hering)
  • Ceratitis lunata Munro
  • Ceratitis marriotti Munro
  • Ceratitis mlimaensis De Meyer
  • Ceratitis morstatti Bezzi
  • Ceratitis nana Munro
  • Ceratitis neostictica De Meyer
  • Ceratitis ovalis Munro
  • Ceratitis paradumeti De Meyer
  • Ceratitis quinaria (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis scaevolae (Munro)
  • Ceratitis silvestrii Bezzi
  • Ceratitis simi Munro
  • Ceratitis stictica Bezzi
  • Ceratitis striatella (Munro)
  • Ceratitis sucini De Meyer
  • Ceratitis turneri (Munro)
  • Ceratitis venusta (Munro)

Subgenus Ceratitis
  • Ceratitis brachychaeta Freidberg
  • Ceratitis caetrata Munro
  • Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann)
  • Ceratitis catoirii Guérin-Méneville
  • Ceratitis cornuta (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis malgassa Munro
  • Ceratitis manjakatompo Hancock
  • Ceratitis pinax Munro

Subgenus Hoplolophomyia
  • Ceratitis cristata (Bezzi)

Subgenus Pardalaspis
  • Ceratitis bremii Guérin-Méneville
  • Ceratitis cuthbertsoni (Munro)
  • Ceratitis ditissima (Munro)
  • Ceratitis edwardsi (Munro)
  • Ceratitis hamata De Meyer
  • Ceratitis munroi De Meyer
  • Ceratitis punctata (Wiedemann)
  • Ceratitis semipunctata De Meyer
  • Ceratitis serrata De Meyer
  • Ceratitis zairensis De Meyer

Subgenus Pterandrus
  • Ceratitis acicularis (Munro)
  • Ceratitis anonae Graham
  • Ceratitis bicincta Enderlein
  • Ceratitis chirinda (Hancock)
  • Ceratitis colae Silvestri
  • Ceratitis curvata (Munro)
  • Ceratitis faceta Enderlein
  • Ceratitis flexuosa (Walker)
  • Ceratitis fulicoides (Munro)
  • Ceratitis gravinotata (Munro)
  • Ceratitis inauratipes (Munro)
  • Ceratitis lepida (Munro)
  • Ceratitis lobata Munro
  • Ceratitis melanopus (Hering)
  • Ceratitis pedestris (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis penicillata (Bigot)
  • Ceratitis pinnatifemur Enderlein
  • Ceratitis podocarpi (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis querita (Munro)
  • Ceratitis rosa Karsch
  • Ceratitis roubaudi (Bezzi)
  • Ceratitis rubivora (Coquillett)
  • Ceratitis tananarivana Hancock
  • Ceratitis tripteris (Munro)

Subgenus unknown
  • Ceratitis fasciventris (Bezzi)

References
  1. Aluja, Martin; Norrbom, Allen (eds.). Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior. doi:10.1201/9781420074468.
  2. Copeland, R.S.; Wharton, R.A.; Luke, Q.; Meyer, M. de; Lux, S.; Zenz, N.; Machera, P.; Okumu, M. (2006). "Geographic Distribution, Host Fruit, and Parasitoids of African Fruit Fly Pests Ceratitis anonae, Ceratitis cosyra, Ceratitis fasciventris, and Ceratitis rosa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Kenya". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (2): –. ISSN 0013-8746.

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