Pediapelta

Pediapelta
Pediapelta spadicescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephrellini
Genus: Pediapelta
Munro, 1947
Type species
Pediapelta spadicescens
Munro, 1947

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

Species

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).

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.