Zeugodacus caudatus (Fabricius)
Nomenclature
Dacus caudatus Fabricius, 1805; 276.
Bactrocera maculipennis Doleschall, 1856:412.
Dacus (Zeugodacus) caudatus- Hardy and Adachi, 1954: 186.
Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) caudata- Norrbom et al., 1999: 102.
Zeugodacus (Zeugodacus) caudatus- Doorenweerd et al., 2018: 44.
Taxonomic position
Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini
Diagnosis
- Scutum black with yellow lateral and medial vittae.
- Medial vitta broadened posteriorly and narrowed apically.
- Face with black spots in the antennal furrows extended laterally forming a line across the mouth opening.
- Wing with costal band continuous from cell sc to wing apex; costal band not overlapping vein R2+3.
Host plants
Trichosanthes palmata Roxb., T. anguina L., Lycopersicum esculentum (L.) Karst., Bryonia laciniosa L., Citrus sp, Cucurbita moschata (Duch.) Poir (Kapoor, 1993).
Male attractant
Cuelure
Distribution
Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala (Bhat, 1989; Ramani, 1997; Agarwal & Sueyoshi, 2005; David and Ramani, 2011).
References
AGARWAL., M. L. AND SUEYOSHI, M., 2005. Catalogue of Indian Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).Oriental Ins., 39: 371-433.
BHAT, G. U., 1989, Faunistic and some ecological studies on Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Bangalore and Kodagu districts. M.Sc Thesis, Univ. of Agril. Sciences, Bangalore, p.117
DAVID, K. J. AND RAMANI, S. 2011. An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of peninsular India and Andaman and Nicobar islands. Zootaxa, 3021: 1-31
DAVID, K. J., KUMAR, A. R. V. AND RAMANI, S. 2008. Distribution of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera:Tephritidae) in Kerala with special reference to the Western Ghats. J. Ent. Res. Soc. 10 (2): 55-69.
DOLESCHALL, C. L., 1856, Eerste bijdrange tot de kennis der dipterologische fauna van Nederlandsch Indie. Natuurw. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië., 10: 403−414.
FABRICIUS, J. C., 1805, Systema antliatorum secundrum ordines, genera , adiectis, synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Reichard, Brunsvigae[=Brunswick], 373 pp.
HARDY, D. E. AND ADACHI, M. S., 1954, Studies in the fruit flies of the Philippine Islands, Indonesia and Malaya, Part 1. Dacini (Tephritidae-Diptera). Pac. Sci., 8: 147−204.
KAPOOR, V. C., 1993. Indian fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 228
NORRBOM A. L., CARROLL, L. E., THOMPSON, F. C., WHITE I. M. AND FREIDBERG, A. 1999. Systematic database of names. In: Thompson F. C. (ed.) Fruit fly expert identification system and systematic information database. Myia, 9: 65–251.
RAMANI, S., 1997, Biosystematic studies on fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) with special reference to the fauna of Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar. Ph.D. (Agri.Ent) Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
WHITE, I. M. AND ELSON–HARRIS, M. M., 1992, Fruit flies of economic significance: their identification and bionomics. CAB International, Wallingford, UK., pp601
