Rhagoletis fausta
Rhagoletis fausta, the black-bodied cherry fruit fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Rhagoletis of the family Tephritidae. It is found in the United States and Canada.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Genus: | Rhagoletis |
| Species: | R. fausta |
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| Rhagoletis fausta (Osten Sacken, 1877) | |
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Taxonomic history
It was initially described by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken in 1877. who classified it in the Acidia subgenus (now its own genus) of the genus Trypeta. In 1899, Daniel William Coquillett transferred the species to its present genus, Rhagoletis.[4] John Merton Aldrich described its junior synonym R. intrudens in 1909.[3] Aldrich himself synonymized the two the following year.[5]
References
- Bush, Guy L. (1966). "The Taxonomy, Cytology, and Evolution of the Genus Rhagoletis in North America (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 134 (11): 518–521.
- Osten Sacken, C. R. (1877). "Western Diptera: Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Diptera from the Region west of the Mississippi, and especially from California". Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 3 (2): 346.
- Aldrich, J. M. (1909). "The Fruit-Infesting Forms of the Dipterous Genus Rhagoletis, with One New Species". The Canadian Entomologist. 41 (2): 69–73. doi:10.4039/Ent4169-2.
- Coquillett, D. W. (1899). "Notes and Descriptions of Trypetidæ". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 7 (4): 260. JSTOR 25002877.
- Aldrich, J. M. (1910). "A Decennial Confession". The Canadian Entomologist. 42 (4): 99. doi:10.4039/Ent4299-4.
Further reading
- Caesar, L. (1912) [1913]. "Some New or Unrecorded Ontario Insect Pests". Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 43: 100–102.
- Herrick, Glenn W. (1915). "Biting and Sucking Insects". Rural School Leaflet. 9 (1): 1268–1270.
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