{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Acanthiophilus helianthi.jpg | image_caption = ''Acanthiophilus helianthi'' Netherlands | taxon = Acanthiophilus | authority = Becker, 1908<ref name="Becker1908a">{{cite journal|last1=Becker|first1=T.|title=Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln|journal=Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin|date=1908|volume=4|issue=1|pages=1–180|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12199947#page/15/mode/1up|accessdate=17 September 2017}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | type_species = ''Tetanocera walkeri'' | type_species_authority = Wollaston, 1858<ref name="Wollaston1858">{{cite journal |last1=Wollaston |first1=T.V. |title= Brief diagnostic characters of undescribed Madeiran insects [concl.] |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |date=1858 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=113–125, 2 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2360671#page/133/mode/1up |access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref> | synonyms = }}
'''''Acanthiophilus''''' is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.<ref name="Norrbom1999">{{cite journal |last1=Norrbom |first1=A.L. |last2=Carroll |first2=L.E. |last3=Thompson |first3=F.C. |last4=White |first4=I.M |last5=Freidberg |first5=A. |title=Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. |journal=Myia |date=1999 |volume=9 |pages=vii + 524}}</ref>
==Species== *''A. brunneus'' <small>Munro, 1934</small><ref name="Munro1934">{{cite journal |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=Further notes on African Trypetidae (Diptera) in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of three new species |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=1934 |volume=739 |pages=5 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2106//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0739.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref> *''A. ciconia'' <small>Munro, 1957</small><ref name="Munro1957">{{cite journal |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=Trypetidae, |journal=Ruwenzori Expedition 1934-1935. British Museum (Natural History) |date=1957 |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=853–1054}}</ref> *''A. helianthi'' <small>(Rossi, 1794)</small><ref name="Rossi1794">{{cite book |last1=Rossi |first1=P. |title=Mantissa insectorum, exhibens species nuper in Etruria collectas, adiectis Faunae Etruscae illustrationibus, ac emendationibus |date=1794 |publisher=Polloni |location=Pisis [=Pisa]. |pages=154 pp., 8 pls}}</ref> *''A. lugubris'' <small>Hering, 1939</small><ref name="Hering1939">{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Neue Trypetiden der Erde (25. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetiden) |journal=Verh. VII Int. Kongr. Ent. |date=1939 |volume=1 |pages=165–190}}</ref> *''A. minor'' <small>Morgulis & Freidburg, 2015</small><ref name="Morgulis2015">{{cite journal|first1=Elizabeth|last1=Morgulis|first2=Amnon|last2=Freidberg|first3=Netta|last3=Dorchin|title=Phylogenetic Revision of ''Acanthiophilus'' (Diptera: Tephritidae), With a Description of Three New Species and a Discussion of Zoogeography|journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America|date=2015|volume=108|issue=6|pages=1060–1087|doi=10.1093/aesa/sav087}}</ref> *''A. summissus'' <small>Morgulis & Freidburg, 2015</small><ref name="Morgulis2015"/> *''A. unicus'' <small>Morgulis & Freidburg, 2015</small><ref name="Morgulis2015"/> *''A. walkeri'' <small>(Wollaston, 1858)</small><ref name="Wollaston1858"/>
The following have been reassigned to other genera:<ref name="Morgulis2015"/><!--Note: it is not made clear WHICH genera exactly they were moved to--> *''A. astrophorus'' <small>Hering, 1939</small><ref name="Hering1939"/> *''A. coarctatus'' <small>Hering, 1942</small> *''A. koehleri'' <small>Hering, 1940</small><ref name="Hering1940">{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Alte und neue Bohrfliegen der Erde. 29. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetiden (Dipt.). |journal=Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung |volume=101 |pages=23–34}}</ref> *''A. melanoxanthus'' <small>Hering, 1938</small> *''A. trypaneodes'' <small>Hering, 1937</small><ref name="Hering1937">{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Neue Bohrfliegen aus der Beckerschen Sammlung. (Dipt.) (16. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae) |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1937 |volume=22 |pages=244–264.}}</ref>
==Global distribution== ''Acanthiophilus'' is a predominantly Afrotropical genus. One species, ''A. helianthi'' is found in Europe, to Mongolia, North Africa, Afghanistan & Thailand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=62473 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622101248/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=62473 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |title=''Acanthiophilus'' Becker, 1908 |work=Fauna Europaea version 2.2 |date=October 5, 2010 |accessdate=October 5, 2010}}</ref> as well as at the Canary islands, in India and Sri-Lanka.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web|title=Study Describes Three New Species of Fruit Flies and Revises Their Genus|url=https://entomologytoday.org/2015/10/02/study-describes-three-new-species-of-fruit-flies-and-revises-their-genus/|website=Entomology Today |publisher=Entomological Society of America|date=October 2, 2015}}
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Category:Tephritinae Category:Tephritidae genera Category:Taxa named by Theodor Becker Category:Flies of Europe Category:Flies of Asia Category:Flies of Africa
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