Tephritidae

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Acanthiophilus helianthi Knapweed Ghost	Species		22 images
Acinia corniculata Scarce Knapweed Fly	Species		7 images
Anomoia purmunda Spectacled Berry Fly	Species		27 images
Campiglossa a genus of gall flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	36 images
Chaetorellia jaceae Lesser Golden Knapweed Fly	Species		14 images
Chaetorellia loricata a gall fly	Species		22 images
Chaetostomella cylindrica a gall fly	Species		20 images
Dioxyna bidentis Bur-marigold Fly	Species		20 images
Dithryca guttularis Mottled Yarrow Fly	Species		11 images
Euleia heraclei Common Umbel Leaf-miner, Celery Fly, Celery Leaf Miner	Species		16 images
Goniglossum wiedemanni Banded Bryony-fly, White Bryony Berry-fly	Species		9 images
Myopites a genus of gall flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	24 images	1 ident. refs
Noeeta pupillata Eyed Hawkweed Fly	Species		14 images
Orellia falcata Goatsbeard Fly	Species		17 images
Oxyna a genus of gall flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	9 images
Platyparea discoidea Banded Bellflower Fly	Species			1 ident. refs
Rhagoletis a genus of gall flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	24 images
Sphenella marginata Ragwort Fly	Species		19 images
Tephritis a genus of gall flies	Genus	8 subtaxa	224 images	4 ident. refs
Terellia a genus of gall flies	Genus	7 subtaxa	169 images	5 ident. refs
Trypeta a genus of gall flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	17 images	2 ident. refs
Urophora a genus of gall flies	Genus	7 subtaxa	190 images	1 ident. refs
Xyphosia miliaria Mottled Thistle Fly	Species		45 images	1 ident. refs

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Clemons, L.	1998	A Field Guide to Identifying British Tephritids	14pp
	Ellis, W.N.		Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and Fungi	bladmineerders.nl
	Hendel, F.	1927	* Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region: vol 49 Trypetidae *(Superseded)	Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region, Vol 16, 263 edition, E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart
()	Storey, M.W.	2018	A Pictorial Guide to the Tephritidae of Britain and Ireland
	White, I.M.	1988	Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 10. Part 5a, 134pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Larvae/Leaf-miners
	Anon.		British Leafminers	www.leafmines.co.uk/
	Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R.		The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects	www.ukflymines.co.uk
Plant Galls
	Anon.		British Galls
()	Redfern, M. & Shirley, P.	2011	British Plant Galls	AIDGAP Keys, Second edition, 432pp, Field Studies Council

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TEPHRITIDAE (gall-flies, greater fruit flies)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 450 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TEPHRITIDAE (gall-flies, greater fruit flies)

Most of these small flies have well-marked (picture) wings. Some species are very common on or near their host plants in high summer. A few (Tephritis spp) hibernate as adults and can be found by searching grass tussocks etc during the winter.

Although the family is called "Gall Flies", only a minority of species have larvae which actually cause galls. The rest are internal feeders in fruits, stems or leaves.

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Family	TEPHRITIDAE (gall-flies, greater fruit flies)
Superfamily	TEPHRITOIDEA (lance and picture-wing flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Acalyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

TEPHRITIDAE
(gall-flies, greater fruit flies)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

TEPHRITIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Plant Galls

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)