Bug FAQTrupanea californica
Trupanea californica · Order: Diptera · Family: Tephritidae
Trupanea californica is a fruit fly belonging to the genus Trupanea in the family Tephritidae. It occurs in the United States and Canada.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Trupanea californica is a species of tephritid (fruit fly) in the genus Trupanea.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
This species is a tephritid fruit fly.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is native to the United States and Canada.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 4 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington.
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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Oriental Fruit FlyBactrocera dorsalisDamages trees, gardens or cropsSources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trupanea_californica
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Text written 2026-10-28 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-28.