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

Acinia picturata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Genus: Acinia
Species:
A. picturata
Binomial name
Acinia picturata
(Snow, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
  • Baryplegma maculipennis Snow, 1894[1]
  • Tephritis picturata Cole, 1923
  • Acinia germanna Foote, Blanc & Norrbom, 1993[2]
  • Musca fucata Fabricius, 1794[3]
  • Musca furcata Turton, 1801[4]

Description

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

References

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  1. ^ a b Snow, W.A. (1894). "Descriptions of North American Trypetidae, with notes. Paper I". The Kansas University Quarterly. 2: 159–174, 2 pls.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ Fabricius, J.C. (1794). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4. Hafniae [=Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft. pp. [6] + 472 + [5] pp.
  4. ^ Turton, W. (1801). A general system of nature. Vol. III. David Williams. p. 784.
  5. ^ 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.