Acidia
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| Acidia | |
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| Acidia cognata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Trypetinae |
| Genus: | Acidia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 |
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Acidia is a small genus of flies in the family Tephritidae. It formerly contained many species, but has since been restricted to two.[2]
A. cognata is a leaf miner of a variety of plants in the family Asteraceae.
[edit] References
- ^ "Acidia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=669091.
- ^ Ho-Yeon Han (2000). "Phylogeny and behavior of flies in the tribe Trypetini (Trypetinae)". In Martín Aluja & Allen Lee Norrbom. Fruit flies (Tephritidae): phylogeny and evolution of behavior. CRC Press. pp. 253–297. ISBN 978-0-8493-1275-5. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0PoBn0o_cY8C&pg=PA277.
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