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Diptera: Tephritidae
Tephritidae is one of two fly families referred to as "fruit flies. " Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila, which is often called the "common fruit fly". There are nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid fruit fly, categorized in almost 500 genera. Description, recategorization, and genetic analysis are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family.
Spotted on Dec 24, 2011
Submitted on Dec 25, 2011
10 Comments
Thank you :)
great capture Rick,amazing macro shot,congrats and thanks for sharing such a amazing spotting page
Wonderful!
Thanks for the heads-up Cindy :)
Thank you for joining Flies! and adding your spottings :)
Thanks :)
Fantastic macro work!
Hi Rick, please consider joining and adding this and other fly spottings to the Flies! mission. http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8526... Thank you
Thanks Karen :)
Great shot Rick!