Bactrocera (Bactrocera) latifrons (Hendel)
Nomenclature
Chaetodacus latifrons Hendel, 1915:425.
Dacus amoyensis Froggat, 1909: 36 (nomen nudum attributed to Bigot)
Dacus parvulus Hendel, 1912a: 21
Chaetodacus parvulus: Shiraki, 1933:54 and Chaetodacus antennalis Shiraki, 1933:56; Hardy, 1973: 49 as synonym of D. parvulus Hendel; White and Liquido, 1995: 250-252
Dacus (Strumeta) latifrons: Hardy and Adachi, 1954: 171
Dacus (Strumeta) parvulus: Hardy, 1973: 49
Dacus (Bactrocera) latifrons: Hardy, 1977: 50
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) parvula: Kapoor, 1993: 76
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) latifrons: White and Liquido, 1995: 251, Lectotype designation; Norrbom et al., 1999: 91;
Bactrocera latifrons: Doorenweerd et al., 2018: 29.
Taxonomic position
Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini
Diagnosis
- Face with two separate black spots
- Scutum black with yellow lateral postsutural vittae
- All femora with black markings
- Wing with costal band overlapping vein R2+3 and expanding towards apex
- Abdomen reddish-brown without prominent dark markings
Host plants
Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium (L.) Miller, Solanum erianthum D.Don., S. indicum L., S.melongena L., S. torvum Sw, S. virarum Dunal.(White and Elson-Harris, 1992; Kapoor, 1993; Ramani, 1997)
Distribution
Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Ramani, 1997; Agarwal & Sueyoshi, 2005)
Selected References
Agarwal., M.L and Sueyoshi, M. (2005) Catalogue of Indian Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).Oriental Ins., 39: 371-433.
Hendel, F. G. (1915) H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute. Tephritinae. Annales Historico-Naturales Nationalis Hungarici, 13: 424-467.
Doorenweerd, C., Leblanc, L., Norrbom, A. L., Jose, M.S. & Rubinoff, D. (2018) A global checklist of the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera, Tephritidae). ZooKeys, 730, 17–54.
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.
Norrbom, A.L., Carroll, L.E., Thompson, F.C., White, I.M. & Freidberg, A. (1999) Systematic Database of Names. In: Thompson FC (Ed.) Fruit fly expert identification system and systematic information database. Myia, 9, 65–251.
