''Rhagoletis adusta'' is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus ''
Rhagoletis
''Rhagoletis'' is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 70 species.
Name
The genus name is partially derived from Ancient Greek ''rhago'' "a kind of spider". This possibly refers to the fact that at least '' R. pomonella'' mimics a jump ...
'' of the family
Tephritidae.
References
adusta
Insects described in 1981
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