Pediapelta Explained

Pediapelta is a monotypic genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.^[1]

Species

• Pediapelta spadicescens Munro, 1947 is found in South Africa.

Dicheniotes aeneus (Munro), D. alexina (Munro), D. asmarensis (Munro), D. enzoria (Munro), D. parviguttatus (Hering), D. sokotrensis (Hering) and D. ternarius (Loew) were transferred fromPediapelta by Hancock (2012).^[2]

Notes and References

1. Norrbom . A.L. . Carroll . L.E. . Thompson . F.C. . White . I.M . Freidberg . A. . Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. . Myia . 1999 . 9 . vii + 524.
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.