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Pelmatops

Pelmatops is a genus of tephritid fruit flies. They are sexually dimorphic, with females having shorter eye stalks than males. Eggs are usually laid in Rubus plants, wherein a larva usually lives within the stem of the plant until pupation.

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Pelmatops
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Trypetinae
Genus: Pelmatops

Pelmatops is a genus of tephritid fruit flies.123 They are sexually dimorphic, with females having shorter eye stalks than males. Eggs are usually laid in Rubus plants, wherein a larva usually lives within the stem of the plant until pupation. 4

Species

  • Pelmatops fukienensis Zia & Chen, 1954
  • Pelmatops ichneumone Westwood, 1850
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References

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  2. "Pelmatops - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
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  4. Huangfu, Ning; Wang, Yong; Zeng, Yu; Chua, Tock H; Zhu, Chaodong; Chen, Xiaolin (2022-07-04). "The First Biological Portrait of Stalk-Eyed Fruit Flies: Life History, Reproductive Biology and Host Use Patterns in Pelmatops spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 115 (5). Oxford University Press (OUP): 365–377. doi:10.1093/aesa/saac011. ISSN 0013-8746.