''Pediapelta'' is a monotypic genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family
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 ...
.
Species
*''
Pediapelta spadicescens''
Munro, 1947 is found in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
.
''
Dicheniotes aeneus'' (Munro), ''
D. alexina'' (Munro), ''
D. asmarensis'' (Munro), ''
D. enzoria'' (Munro), ''
D. parviguttatus'' (Hering), ''
D. sokotrensis'' (Hering) and ''
D. ternarius'' (Loew) were transferred from
''Pediapelta'' by Hancock (2012).
[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.]
References
Tephritinae
Tephritidae genera
Diptera of Africa
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