Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824)

Saghaei, Nazila, 2016, A checklist of the fruit flies (Diptera ¡ Tephritidae) of the province of Fars in southern Iran., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 16, pp. 103-117 : 104

Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824)

Distribution in Iran. Mazandran, Khorasan, Tehran, Gilan, Markazi, Semnan, Isfahan, Yazd, Kermanshah, Kurdistan ( Dastgheyb Beheshti 1980, Esmaili 1983, Behdad 1984, Fischer-Colbrie & Busch-Petersen 1989, Sabzevari & Jafari 1991, Modarres Awal 1997, Mohamadzade Namin et al. 2010c, Mirsardoo et al. 2010); Fars ( Fazel et al. 2011, Pezhman et al. 2011, Soltanizadeh et al. 2015).

General distribution. Africa, Atlantic Ocean Islands, Indian Ocean Islands, Australia, Pacific Ocean Islands, Europe, Middle East, Central America, South Africa, West Indies ( White & Elson-Harris 1992); Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, and introduced to North Africa, South Europe, Middle East, Neotropics, West Australia, Hawaii ( Norrbom et al. 1999). Originally an East African species, introduced with commerce to North Africa, Southern Europe, Near and Middle East, Neotropics, Australia and Hawaii, Yemen ( Merz et al. 2006).