Dacus ciliatus (Loew, 1862)

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 : 105

Dacus ciliatus (Loew, 1862)

Distribution in Iran. Fars, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Khorasan Razavi, Tehran ( Parchami Araghi 1995, Sirjani 1995, Sirjani & Kamali 1995, Hadizadeh & Hosseini 1998, Gilasian 2007); Kurdistan (Mohamadzade Namin & Nozari 2011); Fars ( Soltanizadeh et al. 2015).

General distribution. Africa, Atlantic Islands, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen People's Democratic Republic, Yemen Arab Republic, probably in Iran, Oriental ( White & Elson-Harris 1992); Senegal East to Somalia, South Africa, Madagascar, and introduced to Mauritius, Reunion, Israel, and Egypt East to Burma ( Norrbom et al., 1999). An Afrotropical species which is also found in the Middle East and South Asia ( Merz et al. 2006, Merz 2008).