Pediapelta

Pediapelta is a monotypic genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.^[2]

Pediapelta
Pediapelta spadicescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Subfamily:	Tephritinae
Tribe:	Tephrellini
Genus:	Pediapelta Munro, 1947[1]
Type species
Pediapelta spadicescens Munro, 1947[1]

Species

• Pediapelta spadicescens Munro, 1947^[1] is found in South Africa.

Dicheniotes aeneus (Munro), D. alexina (Munro), D. asmarensis (Munro), D. enzoria (Munro), D. parviguttatus (Hering), D. sokotrensis (Hering) and D. ternarius (Loew) were transferred from Pediapelta by Hancock (2012).^[3]