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Fruit and Gall Flies

Fruit and Gall Flies
Families Micropezidae, Sepsidae, Psilidae and Diopsidae

2026 Editor's Note: the name “Fruit fly” was already bestowed on a different family, Tephritidae The familiar laboratory insect Drosophila melanogaster is more correctly called a pomace fly and belongs to the family Drosophilidae, not the true fruit flies covered on this page. (Ed: DS 2026-08-11)

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