Rhagoletis cingulata

Rhagoletis cingulata, the eastern cherry fruit fly, is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Rhagoletis of the family Tephritidae.^[1][2][3] The cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew), is found from Michigan to New Hampshire, southward to Florida, occurring over the entire middle and eastern region of the United States and also in southeastern and southcentral Canada.

Rhagoletis cingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tephritidae
Tribe:	Carpomyini
Subtribe:	Carpomyina
Genus:	Rhagoletis
Species:	R. cingulata
Binomial name
Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew, 1862)
Synonyms
Trypeta cingulata Loew, 1862