Rhagoletis

Taxobox
name = "Rhagoletis"

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image_caption = "Rhagoletis cerasi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Diptera
infraordo = Muscomorpha
zoosectio = Schizophora
zoosubsectio = Acalyptratae
superfamilia = Tephritoidea
familia = Tephritidae
subfamilia = Trypetinae
tribus = Carpomyiini
subtribus = Carpomyina
genus = "Rhagoletis"
genus_authority = Loew, 1862
diversity_link = List of Rhagoletis species
diversity = ca. 70 species
type_species =
type_species_authority =
range_

range_map_width = 250px
synonyms = "Zonosema" Loew, 1862
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = *"R. mendax"
*"R. zephyria"
*"R. pomonella"
*Lonicera fly"many others"

"Rhagoletis" is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about hundred species.

Name

The genus name is partially derived from Ancient Greek "rhago" "a kind of spider". This possibly refers to the fact that at least "R. pomonella" mimics a jumping spider.

Species

* "Rhagoletis alternata" (Fallén, 1814)
* "Rhagoletis basiola". (Osten Sacken, 1877)
* "Rhagoletis berberis". Jermy, 1961
* "Rhagoletis boycei". Cresson, 1929
* "Rhagoletis cerasi" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Rhagoletis chionanthi". Bush, 1966
* "Rhagoletis cingulata". (Loew, 1862)
* "Rhagoletis completa". Cresson, 1929
* "Rhagoletis cornivora". Bush, 1966
* "Rhagoletis ebbettsi". Bush, 1966
* "Rhagoletis electromorpha". Berlocher, 1984
* "Rhagoletis fausta". (Osten Sacken, 1877)
* "Rhagoletis indifferens". Curran, 1932
* "Rhagoletis juglandis". Cresson, 1920
* "Rhagoletis jumiperina". Marcovitch, 1915
* "Rhagoletis meigenii" (Loew, 1844)
* "Rhagoletis mendax". Curran, 1932
* "Rhagoletis osmanthi". Bush, 1966
* "Rhagoletis persimilis". Bush, 1966
* "Rhagoletis pomonella". (Walsh, 1867)
* "Rhagoletis ribicola". Doane, 1898
* "Rhagoletis striatella". Wulp, 1899
* "Rhagoletis suavis". (Loew, 1862)
* "Rhagoletis tabellaria". (Fitch, 1855)
* "Rhagoletis zephyria". Snow, 1894

External Links

On the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/fruit/tropical/cherry_fruit_fly.htm "Rhagoletis cingulata", eastern cherry fruit fly]
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/fruit/tropical/apple_maggot_fly.htm "Rhagoletis pomonella", apple maggot fly]