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Tephritis
Tephritis is a genus of flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae. Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections. Tephritis occur throughout much of the world, but most are Palearctic. They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra. Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in the family Asteraceae, and a few species...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Burdock Fly
speciesTephritis bardanae
Sowthistle Tephritis
speciesTephritis formosa
Oxeye Daisy Fly
speciesTephritis neesii
Tephritis vespertina
speciesTephritis vespertina
Tephritis postica
speciesTephritis postica
Welted thistle Tephritis
speciesTephritis hyoscyami
Melancholy Thistle Fly
speciesTephritis conura
Tephritis matricariae
speciesTephritis matricariae
Tephritis praecox
speciesTephritis praecox
Tephritis pura
speciesTephritis pura
Tephritis divisa
speciesTephritis divisa
Rayed Thistle Fly
speciesTephritis cometa
Tephritis californica
speciesTephritis californica
Tephritis subpura
speciesTephritis subpura
Tephritis baccharis
speciesTephritis baccharis
Tephritis crepidis
speciesTephritis crepidis
Tephritis pulchra
speciesTephritis pulchra
Tephritis angustipennis
speciesTephritis angustipennis
Tephritis luteipes
speciesTephritis luteipes
Tephritis nigricauda
speciesTephritis nigricauda
Tephritis dilacerata
speciesTephritis dilacerata
Mouse-eared Hawkweed Fly
speciesTephritis ruralis
Tephritis araneosa
speciesTephritis araneosa
Hawkbit Fly
speciesTephritis leontodontis
Tephritis zernyi
speciesTephritis zernyi
Tephritis stigmatica
speciesTephritis stigmatica
Tephritis separata
speciesTephritis separata
Tephritis carmen
speciesTephritis carmen
Tephritis hurvitzi
speciesTephritis hurvitzi
Tephritis arizonaensis
speciesTephritis arizonaensis
Tephritis stictica
speciesTephritis stictica
Tephritis simplex
speciesTephritis simplex
Tephritis ovatipennis
speciesTephritis ovatipennis
Tephritis rufipennis
speciesTephritis rufipennis
Tephritis fallax
speciesTephritis fallax
Tephritis webbii
speciesTephritis webbii
Tephritis heliophila
speciesTephritis heliophila
Tephritis hendeliana
speciesTephritis hendeliana
Tephritis tanaceti
speciesTephritis tanaceti
Tephritis michiganensis
speciesTephritis michiganensis
Tephritis arnicae
speciesTephritis arnicae
Tephritis recurrens
speciesTephritis recurrens
Tephritis sinensis
speciesTephritis sinensis
Tephritis candidipennis
speciesTephritis candidipennis
Tephritis okera
speciesTephritis okera
Tephritis headricki
speciesTephritis headricki
Tephritis jocaste
speciesTephritis jocaste
Tephritis prolixa
speciesTephritis prolixa
Tephritis poenia
speciesTephritis poenia
Tephritis brachyura
speciesTephritis brachyura
Tephritis acanthiophilopsis
speciesTephritis acanthiophilopsis
Tephritis rydeni
speciesTephritis rydeni
Tephritis majuscula
speciesTephritis majuscula
Tephritis cinerea
speciesTephritis cinerea
Tephritis valida
speciesTephritis valida
Tephritis oedipus
speciesTephritis oedipus
Tephritis dudichi
speciesTephritis dudichi
Tephritis conyzifoliae
speciesTephritis conyzifoliae
Tephritis sauterina
speciesTephritis sauterina
Tephritis leavittensis
speciesTephritis leavittensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 335770.