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Mexican fruit fly

Anastrepha ludens (Loew, 1873)

Status not recordedinsects

The mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens) is a species in the family Tephritidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the mexican fruit fly

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 the mexican fruit fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the mexican fruit fly as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

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 the mexican fruit fly 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 the mexican fruit fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyTephritidae
  6. genusAnastrepha
  7. SpeciesAnastrepha ludens (Loew, 1873)

Synonyms Anastrepha lathana, Trypeta ludens

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the mexican fruit fly

Other species in the same genus Anastrepha.

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Common questions

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Is the mexican fruit fly an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the mexican fruit fly as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the mexican fruit fly?

The mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens) 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). Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-fruit-fly

MLA

“Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-fruit-fly.

BibTeX
@misc{mexican_fruit_fly_2026,
  title = {Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-fruit-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}