Paracantha cultaris

Paracantha cultaris is a species of tephritid fruit fly found in western North America, as far south as Costa Rica.^[3] The adult is mainly orange-brown in color. The maggots can be found inside sunflowers and the adult flies are usually nearby the sunflowers.

Paracantha cultaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Genus:	Paracantha
Species:	P. cultaris
Binomial name
Paracantha cultaris (Coquillett, 1894)[1]
Synonyms
Trypeta cultaris Coquillett, 1894[1] Paracantha culturis Malloch, 1933[2]