Anomoia

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| image_caption = Anomoia purmunda

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| taxon = Anomoia

| authority = Walker, 1835

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Anomoia is a largely Oriental genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. The name is frequently misspelled as Anomoea,{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=669346 |title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Anomoea |publisher=Itis.gov |date=2013-04-10 |accessdate=2013-06-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt |title=ITIS Standard Report - Error |accessdate=2011-05-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312100559/http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt |archivedate=2009-03-12 }}{{cite web|url=http://nomen.at/Anomoea |title=Anomoea - Nomen.at - animals and plants |publisher=Nomen.at |date= |accessdate=2013-06-16}}{{cite web|url=http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 |title=Data Use Agreement - GBIF Portal |publisher=Data.gbif.org |date=2007-02-22 |accessdate=2013-06-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327011528/http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 |archivedate=2015-03-27 }} though the latter is a beetle genus. The best known non Oriental species is Anomoia purmunda (Harris, [1780])

In this species the length of the distinctively patterned wings is 3·7-5·0mm. Here the head and body are partly dull yellow to orange or yellow red, with strong, brown bristles.The face and lunula are yellow.The third segment of the antennae is red brown. Mesonotum with thick, grey pruinosity; mesophragm with two large brown spots.The scutellum is tomentose grey.The legs are yellow.The wings are rufous at the base and with brown spots and bands. The abdomen is reddish-brown, with grey pruinosity at the posterior edge.Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the Europea Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. {{ISBN|81-205-0080-6}} {{ISBN|81-205-0081-4}}Séguy, E. (1934) Diptères: Brachycères. II. Muscidae acalypterae, Scatophagidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 28 [http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/E.SEGUY(FdeFr28)Dipt.Brachyceres.pdf Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf]{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Ian M |title=Tephritid Flies, Diptera: Tephritidae |series=Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |volume=10 |issue=5a |url=https://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Vol10_Part05a%20White.pdf |access-date=19 February 2021 |publisher=Royal Entomological Society of London}}

The larva of Aomoia purmunda feeds in the fruits of Crataegus monogyna and other Crataegus, but also on the fruit of Rosaceae and Berberidaceae.