Ceratitis

Ceratitis
Ceratitis capitata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Subfamily:	Dacinae
Tribe:	Ceratidini
Genus:	Ceratitis Macleay, 1829
Species
See text.
Diversity
79 species

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

The genus contains several subgenera:

• Acropteromma
• Ceratalaspis
• Ceratitis
• 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)

External links

On the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

• Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly
• Ceratitis cosyra, mango fruit fly
• Ceratitis rosa, Natal fruit fly
• Tephritid Workers Database