Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,458 meters (0 to 4,783 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
()
- Heymons, 1901
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
()
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
()
- Class:
Insecta
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Insects
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
()
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
()
- Superorder:
Panorpida
()
- Order:
Diptera
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Brachycera
()
- Infraorder:
Muscomorpha
()
- Superfamily:
Tephritoidea
()
- Family:
Tephritidae
()
- Genus:
Ceratitis
()
- MacLeay, 1829
- Specific name:
punctata
- Wiedemann, 1824
- Scientific name: - Ceratitis punctata Wiedemann, 1824
- Specific name:
punctata
- Wiedemann, 1824
- Genus:
Ceratitis
(
- Family:
Tephritidae
(
- Superfamily:
Tephritoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Muscomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Brachycera
(
- Order:
Diptera
(
- Superorder:
Panorpida
(
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
(
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
(
- Class:
Insecta
(
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
(
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 1999
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Ceratitis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. capitata (Mediterranean Fruit Fly)
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Further Reading
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- A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. Ed. by W. Dwight Pierce, entomologist, southern field crop insect investigations. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1918. url p. 126, p. 132, p. 147, p. 229, p. 51, p. 126, p. 132, p. 147, p. 229, p. 51.
- Bulletin of entomological research. Farnham Royal: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. url p. 209, p. 362, p. 87.
- Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 80, p. 80, p. 81, p. 81.
- Cocoa, its cultivation and preparation. London, Murray, 1912. url , , , , p. 87.
- Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 251, p. 455.
- Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 110.
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 74.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 862, p. 863.
- Report on parasitic and injurious insects. By Walter W. Froggatt, entomologist. 1907-1908. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, government printer, 1909. url p. 106.
- The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 260, p. 52, p. 588, p. 59, p. 611, p. 663, p. 741, p. 752, p. 80.
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1057.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4813904
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Dip-77280
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16346542
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 673258
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 668542
Footnotes
- Mean = 329.400 meters (1,080.709 feet), Standard Deviation = 549.120 based on 77 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
