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Rhagoletis pomonella (apply maggot)

Synonyms: Trypeta albiscutellata; Trypeta pomonella

Wikipedia Abstract

The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), also known as a railroad worm (not to be confused with the Phrixothrix beetle larvae also called that), is a pest of several fruits, mainly apples. Before the arrival in America of apples from Europe, it was found mainly in hawthorns.
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore

Prey / Diet

Aronia arbutifolia (Red chokeberry)[2]
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)[2]
Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum)[2]
Prunus persica (peach)[2]
Vaccinium macrocarpum (cranberry)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Coelinidea ferruginea[3]
Diachasma alloeum[3]
Diachasmimorpha mellea[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae), H.V. Weems, Jr., Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry; and T.R. Fasulo, University of Florida, January 2002. Latest revision: March 2015
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0