Rhagoletis Rhytida
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''Rhagoletis rhytida'' 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 jumpi ...
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Tephritidae The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus ''Drosophila'' (in the family Drosophilidae), w ...
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rhytida ''Rhytida'' is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, predatory land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Rhytididae. This is the type genus of the family. Distribution This g ...
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