Rhagoletis

Cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi, copyright Entomart.

Belongs within: Tephritidae.

Rhagoletis is a genus of fruit flies with multiple brown bands on the wings, crossveins r-m and dm-cu covered by separate bands, and a strong facial carina. Larvae feed on fruits of a range of plant families (Norrbom 2010).

<==Rhagoletis
    |--R. basiola R84
    |--R. berberides R84
    |--R. berberis R84
    |--R. boycei R84
    |--R. cerasi R84
    |--R. cingulata R84
    |--R. completa R84
    |--R. cornivora R84
    |--R. fausta R84
    |--R. indifferens R84
    |--R. juglandis R84
    |--R. juniperina R84
    |--R. lycopersella N10
    |--R. mendax R84
    |--R. nova N10
    |--R. pomonella N10
    |--R. ribicola R84
    |--R. striatella N10
    |--R. suavis R84
    |--R. tabellaria R84
    |--R. tomatis N10
    `--R. zephyria R84

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[N10] Norrbom, A. L. 2010. Tephritidae (fruit flies, moscas de frutas). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 2 pp. 909–954. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[R84] Rogers, J. S. 1984. Deriving phylogenetic trees from allele frequencies. Systematic Zoology 33 (1): 52–63.