Tephritis is a genus of flies. It contains around 170 described species, making it the sixth largest genus in the family Tephritidae.[10] Many more undescribed species are known from specimen collections.[11]Tephritis occur throughout much of the world, but most are Palearctic.[10] They can be found in a wide range of climate types, from hot semidesert to tundra.[12] Most species inhabit the inflorescences of plants from several tribes in the family Asteraceae, and a few species cause galls to form.[10][13]
Tephritis can be distinguished from other fruit flies of the Tephritinae by the arrangement of setae on their bodies, among other characters.[14][15]
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^Wang, X.J. (1990). "New genus and species of Tephritinae (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Inner Mongolia, China". Entomotaxonomia. 12: 291–304.
^Basov, V.M.; Tolstoguzova, I.A. (1994). "Two new species and a new subgenus of fruit flies of the genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Russia". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 73 (9): 83–90.
^Richter, V.A. (1995). "A new genus and species of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Middle Asia". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 74: 224–226.
^Korneyev, Severyn V. (2013). "Revision of species of the genus Tephritis Latreille 1804 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with entire apical spot". Zootaxa. 3620 (1). Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 67–88. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.3. ISSN1175-5334. PMID26120697.
^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.