Sphenella ruficeps

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| genus = Sphenella

| species = ruficeps

| authority = (Macquart, 1851){{cite journal |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4e supplement publie dans les memoires de 1849. |journal=Mémoires de la Société (Royale) des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts à Lille |date=1851 |volume=1850 |pages=134–294, pls. 15–28}}

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| synonyms = *Urophora ruficeps Macquart, 1851

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Sphenella ruficeps is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Sphenella of 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}}