Bug FAQTomoplagia obliqua
Tomoplagia obliqua · Order: Diptera · Family: Tephritidae
Tomoplagia obliqua is a fruit fly belonging to the genus Tomoplagia in the family Tephritidae. It occurs in the United States, Costa Rica, the Bahamas and Cuba.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Tomoplagia obliqua is a species of tephritid (fruit) fly.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is native to the United States and also found in Costa Rica, the Bahamas and Cuba.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 26 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoplagia_obliqua
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Text written 2026-10-27 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-27.