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Dacus ciliatus

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Dacus ciliatus is a species in the family Tephritidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about Dacus ciliatus

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Dacus ciliatus live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Dacus ciliatus as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Iraq
  2. Nepal

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Dacus ciliatus endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Dacus ciliatus classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyTephritidae
  6. genusDacus
  7. SpeciesDacus ciliatus Loew, 1862

Synonyms Dacus apoxanthus var. decolor, Dacus brevistylus, Dacus ciliatus, Dacus cocciniae, Dacus insistens, Dacus sigmoides, Tridacus mallyi

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Relatives of Dacus ciliatus

Other species in the same genus Dacus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Dacus ciliatus an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Dacus ciliatus as introduced in 2 countries: Iraq and Nepal, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Dacus ciliatus?

Dacus ciliatus (Dacus ciliatus) belongs to the family Tephritidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Dacus ciliatus (Dacus ciliatus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dacus-ciliatus

MLA

“Dacus ciliatus (Dacus ciliatus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dacus-ciliatus.

BibTeX
@misc{dacus_ciliatus_2026,
  title = {Dacus ciliatus (Dacus ciliatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dacus-ciliatus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}