Ceratitis capitata

Mediterranean fruit fly

SPECIES

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumArthropoda
3. ClassInsecta
4. OrderDiptera
5. FamilyTephritidae

Observations recorded8,508

Ceratitis (Ceratitis) capitata (Wiedemann)Tephritis capitata Wiedemann, 1824: 55.Body length: 4.00 (3.45-4.60) mm; wing length: 4.12 (3.65-4.55) mm. Male Head. Antenna yellow or more orange; first and second segment and base of third segment sometimes darker. Third antennal segment twice as long as second segment. Arista with short hairs, mainly on base and only distinct dorsally. Frons convex to flat; yellow, sometimes with darker orange or orange-brown patches including darker band near antennal implant, occasionally with faint silvery shine; with short scattered hairs which are largely the same colour as frons. Frontal and ocellar bristles black; lower orbital modified, stem pale and shorter than arista with apical end dark and diamond-shaped; upper orbital weakly developed, black. Face yellow-white. Genal bristle pale, genal setulae pale or reddish, weakly developed. Postocellar and outer vertical pale. Thorax. Postpronotum white, with distinct black spot. Mesonotum: ground colour black, microtrichiae pattern silvery with ashgrey shine, spots black except sutural white spots, prescutellar white markings merged. Scapular setae pale. Scutellum yellow-white, basally with two dark spo

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• Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) susceptibility to bait toxic.Brazilian journal of biology = Revista brasleira de biologia · 2025
• Efficacy of an existing Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) cold disinfestation treatment schedule for Ceratitis cosyra.Journal of economic entomology · 2023
• Decoding and engineering temperature-sensitive lethality in Ceratitis capitata for pest control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
• Worldwide Phylogeography of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Using Mitochondrial DNA.Journal of economic entomology · 2020
• Genomic and cytogenetic analysis of the Ceratitis capitata temperature-sensitive lethal region.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023

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