Rhagoletis Loew 1862
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
name: Mishustin, R. I.
name: Korneyev, S. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Rhagoletis

description: <i>Rhagoletis</i> Loew, 1862 <i>Rhagoletis</i> Loew, 1862b: 44 Type species: <i>Rhagoletis cerasi</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) (by monotypy). <i>Zonosema</i> Loew 1862b: 43 Type species: <i>Tephritis alternata</i> Fallén, by subsequent designation of Rondani, 1870: 6. <i>Microrrhagoletis</i> Rohdendorf, 1961: 187 Type species: <i>Microrrhagoletis samojlovitshae</i> Rohdendorf (by original designation). <i>Megarrhagoletis</i> Rohdendorf, 1961: 196. Type species: <i>Megarrhagoletis magniterebra</i> Rohdendorf (by original designation). Diagnosis. Medium-sized (3.0–8.0 mm) fruit flies with 3 frontal and 2 orbital setae, pale or dark postocellar seta, short head, pointed apex of flagellomere 1 (except in <i>R. kurentsovi</i> (Rohdendorf, 1961) from Far East Russia and some Neotropical species); either pale yellow to orange, or mostly black with creamy white or yellow scutellum except base and postpronotal lobes, long and variously acute posterior lobe of surstylus of male, oviscape with T-shaped desclerotized posteromedial area ventrally, and aculeus uniformly tapered apically. Third instar larva with variable number (from 3 to 20) of oral ridges and stomal sensory organ with or without preoral teeth. Remarks. <i>Rhagoletis</i> is a heterogeneous genus with five to seven groups of species associated with different host plant families (Rhamnaceae, Berberidacea, Solanaceae, etc.) in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, and Neotropical Regions (and a few species in montane areas in the northern Oriental Region), with the relationships among them and the other genera of the tribe Carpomyini (e. g., <i>Carpomya</i> and <i>Zonosemata</i>) still poorly resolved and understood. In the case <i>Carpomya</i> is found to be an in-group within <i>Rhagoletis</i>, the latter either would incorporate its species and become a junior synonym of the latter, or should be split into several monophyletic genera (V. Korneyev, unpublished data; J. Jenkins, unpublished data; J. Smith et al., in prep.). Here, we abstain from any taxonomic changes until phylogenetic relationships in <i>Rhagoletis</i> are better understood.
description: Published as part of <i>Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I. &amp; Korneyev, S. V., 2017, The Carpomyini Fruit Flies Diptera: Tephritidae Of Europe Caucasus And Middle East: New Records Of Pests With Improved Keys, pp. 453-470 in Vestnik Zoologii 51 (6)</i> on pages 459-460, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2017-0056, http://zenodo.org/record/6454431
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