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Dicheniotes aeneus

Dicheniotes aeneus is a species of tephritid or fruit flies (Tephritidae).

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Dicheniotes aeneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Tephritinae
Tribe: Tephrellini
Genus: Dicheniotes
Species:
D. aeneus
Binomial name
Dicheniotes aeneus
(Munro, 1947)1
Synonyms
  • Pediapelta aenea Munro, 1947

Dicheniotes aeneus is a species of tephritid or fruit flies (Tephritidae).2

Distribution

Kenya, Tanzania.

References

References

  1. Munro, H.K. (1947). African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia. Southern Africa: Entomological Society of Southern Africa. pp. [viii] + 28.
  2. 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.