A checklist of the fruit flies (Diptera ¡ Tephritidae) of the province of Fars in southern Iran. Author Saghaei, Nazila text Arquivos Entomolóxicos 2016 16 103 117 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.12765703 1989-6581 12765703 Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) Distribution in Iran . Mazandran, Khorasan , Tehran , Gilan , Markazi , Semnan , Isfahan , Yazd , Kermanshah , Kurdistan ( Dastgheyb Beheshti 1980 , Esmaili 1983 , Behdad 1984 , Fischer-Colbrie & Busch-Petersen 1989 , Sabzevari & Jafari 1991 , Modarres Awal 1997 , Mohamadzade Namin et al. 2010c , Mirsardoo et al. 2010 ); Fars ( Fazel et al. 2011 , Pezhman et al. 2011 , Soltanizadeh et al. 2015 ). General distribution. Africa, Atlantic Ocean Islands, Indian Ocean Islands, Australia , Pacific Ocean Islands, Europe, Middle East, Central America, South Africa , West Indies ( White & Elson-Harris 1992 ); Tropical Africa, Madagascar , Mauritius , Reunion , and introduced to North Africa, South Europe, Middle East, Neotropics, West Australia , Hawaii ( Norrbom et al. 1999 ). Originally an East African species, introduced with commerce to North Africa, Southern Europe, Near and Middle East, Neotropics, Australia and Hawaii, Yemen ( Merz et al. 2006 ).