Fruit flies

Two families of flies (suborder Brachycera ) are known under the term fruit flies in German usage :

• the Drosophilidae ( fruit flies , also called fruit or vinegar flies) with the representative Drosophila melanogaster , which is world-famous as a biological research object, and the particularly common pest, also known as cherry vinegar fly (introduced from Southeast Asia to Europe in 2009)
• the Tephritidae (also called drill flies )

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.