Ceratitis

Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 80 species. One of the best known species is Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly.

The genus contains several subgenera:

• Acropteromma [in some schemes as own genus]
• Ceratalaspis
• Ceratitis
• Hoplolophomyia
• Pardalaspis
• Pterandrus