''Dicheniotes ternarius'' is a species of tephritid or fruit flies (

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 ...

); it was previously placed in the genus ''Pediapelta''.Hancock, D. L. (2012). Systematic and distributional notes on some Australasian and African species of ''Platensina'' Enderlein and ''Dicheniotes'' Munro (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae), with description of a new species of ''Dicheniotes'' from Kenya. ''The Australian Entomologist'', 39(4), 305-320.

Distribution

Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa.

References

Tephritinae Insects described in 1861 Diptera of Africa {{tephritinae-stub