Pediapelta is a monotypic genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[2]

Pediapelta
Pediapelta spadicescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Species

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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

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.