Capitites

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Capitites ramulosa (a tephritid fly) on Phagnalon graeca.jpg

| image_caption = Capitites ramulosa

| taxon = Capitites

| authority = Foote & Freidberg, 1981{{cite journal |last1=Foote |first1=R.H. |last2=Freidberg |first2=A. |title=The taxonomy and nomenclature of some Palaearctic Tephritidae (Diptera) |journal=Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences |date=1981 |volume=(1980) 70 |pages=29–34 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39799859#page/37/mode/1up |access-date=31 March 2021}}

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| type_species = Trypeta ramulosa

| type_species_authority = Loew, 1844{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=H. |title=Kritische Untersuchung der europäische n Arten des Genus Trypeta Meig. |journal=Z. Ent. (Germar) |date=1844 |volume=5 |pages=312–437}}

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Capitites is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.{{cite journal |last1=Norrbom |first1=A.L. |last2=Carroll |first2=L.E. |last3=Thompson |first3=F.C. |last4=White |first4=I.M |last5=Freidberg |first5=A. |title=Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. |journal=Myia |date=1999 |volume=9 |pages=vii + 524}}

Species

  • Capitites albicans (Munro, 1935){{cite journal |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=Biological and systematic notes and records of South African Trypetidae (fruit-flies, Diptera) with descriptions of new species |journal=Entomology Memoirs, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa |date=1935 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=18–59}}
  • Capitites aurea (Bezzi, 1924){{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=M. |title=Further notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies, with keys to all the known genera and species [part] |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1924 |volume=15 |pages=73–118}}
  • Capitites dentiens (Bezzi, 1924)
  • Capitites dicomala (Munro, 1935)
  • Capitites goliath (Bezzi, 1924)
  • Capitites kloofensis (Munro, 1935)
  • Capitites ramulosa (Loew, 1844)

References