Acinia picturata

Acinia picturata, the sourbush seed fly, is a species of fruit fly in the family Tephritidae.[2][3][4][5]

Acinia picturata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephritini
Genus: Acinia
Species:
A. picturata
Binomial name
Acinia picturata
(Snow, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
  • Baryplegma maculipennis Snow, 1894[1]
  • Tephritis picturata Cole, 1923

Description

United States, Guatemala, West Indies. Introduced Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, Wake Island.

References
  1. Snow, W.A. (1894). "Descriptions of North American Trypetidae, with notes. Paper I". The Kansas University Quarterly. 2: 159–174, 2 pls.
  2. Foote, Richard H.; Blanc, F. L.; Norrbom, Allen L. (1993). Handbook of the Fruit Flies (Diptera : Tephritidae of America North of Mexico). Comstock Publishing Associates. pp. 1–576. ISBN 978-0801426230.
  3. "Acinia picturata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  4. "Acinia picturata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  5. Doorenweerd C, Leblanc L, Norrbom AL, Jose MS, Rubinoff D (2018). "A global checklist of the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera, Tephritidae)". ZooKeys 730: 19-56.
  • Bosik, Joseph J., Chairman, et al. (Committee on Common Names of Insects) (1997). Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms, 238.
  • Norrbom, A. L., L. E. Carroll, F. C. Thompson, I. M. White and A. Freidberg / F. C. Thompson, ed. (1998). "Systematic database of names". Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. Myia, vol. 9, 65-251.

Further reading
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
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