Biology:Pediapelta
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Short description: Genus of flies
| Pediapelta | |
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| Pediapelta spadicescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Tephrellini |
| Genus: | Pediapelta Munro, 1947[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pediapelta spadicescens Munro, 1947[1]
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Pediapelta is a monotypic genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[2]
Species
- Pediapelta spadicescens Munro, 1947[1] is found in South Africa .
Dicheniotes aeneus (Munro), D. alexina (Munro), D. asmarensis (Munro), D. enzoria (Munro), D. parviguttatus (Hering), D. sokotrensis (Hering) and D. ternarius (Loew) were transferred from Pediapelta by Hancock (2012).[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Munro, H.K. (1947). African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia. Southern Africa: Entomological Society of Southern Africa. pp. [viii] + 28.
- ↑ Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg, A. (1999). "Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database.". Myia 9: vii + 524.
- ↑ Hancock, D. L. (2012). Systematic and distributional notes on some Australasian and African species of Platensina Enderlein and Dicheniotes Munro (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae), with description of a new species of Dicheniotes from Kenya. The Australian Entomologist, 39(4), 305–320.
Wikidata ☰ Q7159172 entry
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