{{Short description|Genus of insects}} {{Other uses|Dacus (disambiguation)}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Didacus ciliatus, Jan Celliers Park, b.jpg | image_caption = ''Dacus ciliatus'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Dacus | authority = Fabricius, 1805 | subdivision_ranks = Subgenera | subdivision = * ''Callantra'' * ''Dacus'' * ''Didacus'' * ''Leptoxyda'' * ''Metidacus'' | diversity_link = List of Dacus species | diversity = 274 species | synonyms = * ''Rhamphodacus'' <small>Munro, 1984</small> * ''Tridacus'' <small>Bezzi, 1915</small> * ''Neodacus'' <small>Perkins, 1937</small> * ''Desmodacus'' <small>Munro, 1984</small> * ''Ancylodacus'' <small>Munro, 1984</small> * ''Dorylodacus'' <small>Munro, 1984</small> * ''Tythocalama'' <small>Munro, 1984</small> | type_species = ''Dacus armatus'' | type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1805 }}
'''''Dacus''''' is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=143186|title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Dacus|website=www.itis.gov}}</ref>
==Systematics== Many subgenera are defined within this genus:<ref>Doorenweerd C, Leblanc L, Norrbom AS, San Jose M, Rubinoff D (2018) A global checklist for the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera: Tephritidae). ''ZooKeys'' 730: 19–56. [https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=21786 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.730.21786]</ref><ref>Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2006) A revised classification of subgenera and species groups in Dacus Fabricius (Diptera: Tephritidae). ''Instrumenta Biodiversitatis'' VII: 167–205.</ref> {{div col|colwidth=15em}} *''Ambitidacus'' *''Callantra'' *''Dacus'' *''Didacus'' *''Leptoxyda'' *''Lophodacus'' *''Mellesis'' *''Metidacus'' *''Neodacus'' *''Psilodacus'' {{div col end}}
==See also== *List of ''Dacus'' species
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Dacus'' Fabricius, 1805 |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:646d2318-46ff-4e36-af7d-de99ffebcf53}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}}
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Category:Dacinae Category:Tephritidae genera
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