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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Flies
  6. Acalyptrate Flies
  7. Fruit, Signal, and Picture-winged Flies

superfamily

Fruit, Signal, and Picture-winged Flies

Tephritoidea

Includes
250 native 26 introduced 20 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • True Fruit Flies 149 native
  • Picture-winged Flies 50 native
  • Signal Flies 19 native
  • Lance Flies 8 native
  • Cheese Skipper Flies and Allies 8 native
  • Scarab Pursuing Flies 7 native
  • Richardiidae 5 native
  • Flutter-wing Flies 4 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native fruit, signal, and picture-winged flies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Goldenrod Gall Fly Eurosta solidaginis 22,014 observations
  • Common Picture-winged Fly Delphinia picta 21,404 observations
  • Sunflower Seed Maggot Neotephritis finalis 3,814 observations
  • Walnut Husk Maggot Fly Rhagoletis suavis 2,049 observations
  • Chaetopsis massyla 1,102 observations
  • Walnut Husk Fly Rhagoletis completa 904 observations
  • Parsnip Leaf Miner Euleia fratria 672 observations
  • Idana marginata 657 observations
  • Trupanea bisetosa 569 observations
  • Tritoxa cuneata 24 observations
  • Trupanea jonesi 22 observations
  • Trupanea cratericola 4 observations
  • Trupanea bidensicola 2 observations
  • Trupanea arboreae 1 observations
  • Trupanea dubautiae 1 observations
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