Anomoia
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Anomoia is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae
. The name is frequently misspelled as Anomoea
, though the latter is a beetle genus.
Tephritidae
Tephritidae is one of two fly families referred to as "fruit flies", the other family being Drosophilidae. Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila , which is often called the "common fruit fly". There are nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid...
. The name is frequently misspelled as Anomoea
Anomoea
Anomoea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Cryptocephalinae. The name is frequently confused with the tephritid fly genus Anomoia, due to historical confusion over precedence....
, though the latter is a beetle genus.