Fruit Fly vs Oriental House Rat

Urophora cardui compared with Rattus tanezumi

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Fruit Fly	Oriental House Rat
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Diptera (Diptera)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Tephritidae	Muridae (Mice & Rats)
Genus	Urophora	Rattus
Species	Urophora cardui	Rattus tanezumi

Evolutionary Relationship

Fruit Fly and Oriental House Rat share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Fruit Fly

LC — Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Fruit Fly	Oriental House Rat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Fruit Fly

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

Oriental House Rat

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Oceanian biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (Philippines, Taiwan), and Oceania and the Pacific (Kiribati).