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 [in some schemes as own genus]

• Ceratalaspis

• Ceratitis

• Hoplolophomyia

• Pardalaspis

• Pterandrus

Species

Subgenus Acropteromma

• Ceratitis munroana

(see some as alternative spelling Ceratitis munroanum, elsewhere as protonym Acropteromma munroanum)

Subgenus Ceratalaspis

• Ceratitis aliena

• Ceratitis andranotobaka

• Ceratitis antistictica (Per , contra scheme on some websites)

• Ceratitis argenteobrunnea

• Ceratitis brucei

• Ceratitis connexa

• Ceratitis contramedia

• Ceratitis cosyra

• Ceratitis discussa

• Ceratitis divaricata

• Ceratitis dumeti

• Ceratitis ealensis

• Ceratitis epixantha

• Ceratitis flavipennata

• Ceratitis giffardi (But see as uncertainty if a junior synonym of Ceratitis cosyra).

• Ceratitis grahami

• Ceratitis guttiformis

• Ceratitis hancocki

• Ceratitis lentigera

• Ceratitis lineata (But see with doubts over minor differences from Ceratitis striatella).

• Ceratitis lunata

• Ceratitis marriotti

• Ceratitis mlimaensis

• Ceratitis morstatti

• Ceratitis nana

• Ceratitis neostictica

• Ceratitis oraria

• Ceratitis ovalis

• Ceratitis pallidula

• Ceratitis paradumeti

• Ceratitis perisae

• Ceratitis perseus

(for Ceratitis pycnanthi see as synonym under Ceratitis striatella per )

• Ceratitis quinaria

• Ceratitis sarcocephali . (But see as uncertainty if a junior synonym of Ceratitis cosyra).

• Ceratitis sawahilensis

• Ceratitis scaevolae

• Ceratitis silvestrii

• Ceratitis simi

• Ceratitis stictica

• Ceratitis striatella

• Ceratitis sucini

• Ceratitis taitaensis

• Ceratitis turneri

• Ceratitis venusta

• Ceratitis whartoni

Subgenus Ceratitis

• Ceratitis brachychaeta

• Ceratitis caetrata

• Ceratitis capitata

• Ceratitis catoirii

• Ceratitis cornuta

• Ceratitis malgassa

• Ceratitis manjakatompo

• Ceratitis pinax

(note for Ceratitis antistictica see subgenus Ceratalaspis).

Subgenus Hoplolophomyia

• Ceratitis cristata

Subgenus Pardalaspis

• Ceratitis bremii

• Ceratitis cuthbertsoni

• Ceratitis ditissima

• Ceratitis edwardsi

• Ceratitis hamata

• Ceratitis millicentae

• Ceratitis munroi

• Ceratitis punctata

• Ceratitis semipunctata

• Ceratitis serrata

• Ceratitis zairensis

Subgenus Pterandrus

• Ceratitis acicularis

• Ceratitis anonae [FARQ complex]

• Ceratitis argenteostriata

• Ceratitis barbata

• Ceratitis bicincta (see also under Trirhithrum bicinctum ).

• Ceratitis chirinda [See Neoceratitis chirinda in Norrbom et al., 1999]

• Ceratitis colae

• Ceratitis copelandi

• Ceratitis curvata

• Ceratitis faceta (see also under Trirhithrum facetum )

• Ceratitis fasciventris [not in Norrbom 1999] [FARQ complex]

• Ceratitis flexuosa

• Ceratitis fulicoides

• Ceratitis gravinotata

• Ceratitis inauratipes (see also under Trirhithrum inauratipes

• Ceratitis lepida

• Ceratitis lobata

• Ceratitis melanopus

• Ceratitis nigricornis

• Ceratitis obtusicuspis

• Ceratitis paracolae

• Ceratitis pedestris

• Ceratitis penicillata

• Ceratitis pennitibialis

• Ceratitis pinnatifemur

• Ceratitis podocarpi

• Ceratitis querita (see also under Trirhithrum queritum ).

• Ceratitis quilicii [FARQ complex]

• Ceratitis rosa [FARQ complex]

• Ceratitis roubaudi

• Ceratitis rubivora

• Ceratitis stipula

• Ceratitis tananarivana

• Ceratitis tripteris

• Ceratitis whitei

References

External links

On the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

• Tephritid Workers Database