“…4N). The family currently comprises 4,963 species described in approximately 500 genera (Norrbom et al, 1999;Norrbom, 2010;Savaris et al, 2016;Brown et al, 2018;Borkent et al, 2018;Martinez et al, 2020), allocated in six subfamilies: Tachiniscinae, Blepharoneurinae, Phytalmiinae, Trypetinae, Dacinae, and Tephritinae (Korneyev, 1999;Norrbom, 2010). Also known as fruit flies, tephritids are distributed in all biogeographic regions, except in desert and polar areas, where their hosts are scarce or absent (Foote et al, 1993;Thompson, 1999).…”