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Carpomya vesuviana Costa

Recognition
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Carpomya vesuviana differs from other species of Carpomya

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Subfamily: Trypetinae. Tribe: Carpomyini. Genus: Carpomya. Species: vesuviana. Author: Costa.
Relationships among the species of Carpomya were analyzed by Norrbom (1997), who considered C. vesuviana to be most closely related to C. schineri and incompleta. Click here for more detailed discussion of Carpomya phylogeny.

Names Used for this Species
Carpomya vesuviana Costa 1854: 87.
Orellia bucchichi Frauenfeld 1867: 500.
Carpomyia zizyphae Agarwal & Kapoor 1985: 60.
Carpomyia buchicchii Rondani 1870: 23, missp. bucchichi Frauenfled.
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Type Data
vesuviana: Syntypes - Sex not stated (IZUSN?), ITALY: Sicily: agro Neapolitano [Naples countryside].
bucchichi: Holotype - Female (NMW), Lesina [Bosnia. Hvar].
zizyphae: Holotype - Female (INPC?), INDIA: Punjab: Ludhiana Distr., Seikhupura.

Distribution
Carpomya vesuviana is known from Italy, Bosnia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
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Biology
Carpomya vesuviana breeds in fruit of  .

Economic Significance
Carpomya vesuviana is .

Comments
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References
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Norrbom 1997 [phylogenetic relationships]

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