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Carpomya Costa (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Recognition
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Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Subfamily: Trypetinae. Tribe: Carpomyini. Genus: Carpomya. Author: Costa.
Carpomya belongs to the subtribe Carpomyina of the tribe Carpomyini. Within this group, the most closely related species may be currently classified in the probably paraphyletic genus Rhagoletis (Smith & Bush 1999). The phylogenetic relationships within Carpomya were analyzed by Norrbom (1997) and Jenkins ().
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Diversity & Distribution
Carpomya, as delimited by Norrbom (1997), includes six species: C. incompleta (Becker), C. pardalina Bigot, C. schineri (Loew), C. vesuviana Costa, C. wiedemanni (Meigen), and C. tica Norrbom. Traditionally, Carpomya wiedemanni has been classified in the monotypic genus Goniglossum Rondani (1856), and C. pardalina has been placed in the subgenus or genus Myiopardalis Bezzi (1910). Carpomya, in the broad sense, is a widespread genus, with one species known from Central America, and the other five from the Old World (5 in Palearctic Region, 1 in Afrotropical Region, and 2 in Oriental Region).

Spilographa caucasica Bigot (1880) was long placed in Carpomya following Hendel (1927), but probably based only on confusion with Carpomyia caucasica Zaitzev (= C. pardalina). It was removed by Norrbom (1997) and belongs in the genus Chetostoma.
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Names Used for this Genus
Carpomya

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Biology
Species of Carpomya breed in species of Cucurbitaceae (Bryonia, Cucumis, Citrullus, and Ecballium spp.), Rosaceae (Rosa spp.), and Rhamnaceae (Ziziphus spp.).  The larvae feed in the fruit (Freidberg & Kugler 1989, White & Elson-Harris 1992).

Economic Significance
Carpomya pardalina is an important pest of cucurbits

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References
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Bezzi, M. 1910. Restaurazione del genere Carpomyia (Rond.) A. Costa. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Rebia Scuola d'Agricoltura, Portici 3: 273-313.
Bigot, J.M.F. 1880. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 13e Partie. Quelques Diptères de Perse et du Caucase. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Ve Série 1880: 139-154.
Bigot, J.M.F. 1891. III. - The Baluchistan Melon Fly. (Carpomyia Pardalina, % et &, nov. sp.). Indian Museum Notes 2: 51.
Carroll, L.E. 1992. Systematics of fruit fly larvae (Diptera: Tephritidae). Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A & M University, College Station, 341 p.
Costa, A. 1854. Frammenti di entomologia napoletana. Annali Scientifici (Napoli) 1: 69-91.
Foote, R.H. 1984. Family Tephritidae, p. 66-149. In: A Soos & L. Papp, eds., Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 9, Micropezidae - Agromyzidae. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam. 460 p.
Freidberg, A. & J. Kugler. 1989. Fauna Palaestina. Insecta IV. Diptera: Tephritidae. Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Jerusalem, 212 p.
Hendel, F. 1927. Trypetidae. In: E. Lindner, ed., Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region. Vol. 5, 221 pp.
Kandybina, M.N. 1965. On the larvae of fruit-flies of the genus Carpomyia A. Costa (Diptera, Trypetidae). Enomologicheskoe Obozrenie 44: 665-672 [in Russian, English translation in Entomological Review 44: 390-394].
Kandybina, M.N. 1977. Lichinki plodovykh mukh-pestrokrylok (Diptera, Tephritidae) [Larvae of fruit-infesting fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae)]. Opredeliteli Po Faune SSSR. No. 114: 1-210.
Norrbom, A. L. 1997. The genus Carpomya Costa (Diptera: Tephritidae): new synonymy, description of first American species, and phylogenetic analysis. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 99: 338-347. [phylogenetic relationships]
Rohdendorf, B.B. 1939. Differences between the melon fly [Carpomyia (Myiopardalis) pardalina Big.] and closely related species. Inf. byull. vopr. karantina rast. 6: 8-9. [not seen, copied from Kandybina 1965]
Rondani, C. 1856. Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol 1: Genera Italica ordinis dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familiae et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [Parma], 228 p.
Stackelberg, A. 1928. Zur Synonymie der Melonenfliege Myiopardalis pardalina Big. =caucasica Zaitz. Reports of the Bureau of Applied Entomology 3: 281.
White, I.M. & M. Elson-Harris. 1992. Fruit Flies of Economic Significance: Their Identification and Bionomics. C.A.B. International, Wallingford, 601 p.

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