True fruit flies of India

Dasyneura zonatus Saunders 1842: 61

Bactrocera maculigera Doleschall, 1858:122; Hardy, 1973: 54 (synonymy not confirmed); Norrbom et al., 1999: 96 (synomym)

Rivellia persicae Bigot, 1890:192; Hardy, 1973: 54 (synonym)

Dacus ferrugineus var. mangiferae Cotes, 1893:17

Chaetodacus zonatus: Bezzi, 1916: 105

Dacus (Chaetodacus) zonatus: Hendel, 1927a: 28

Strumeta zonata: Perkins, 1938: 122

Dacus (Strumeta) zonatus: Hardy, 1973: 54

Dacus (Bactrocera) zonatus: Hardy, 1977: 53

Rivellia persicae Bigot, 1889 (Invalid)

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) zonata: White and Elson-Harris, 1992: 239; Norrbom et al., 1999: 96; Drew and Raghu, 2002: 345; Agarwal and Sueyoshi, 2005: 379; Drew et al., 2007: 6; David and Ramani, 2011: 3; Drew and Romig, 2013: 194.

Bactrocera zonata: Doorenweerd et al., 2018: 36

Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini

• Pale orange brown to red species with lateral yellow stripes on scutum, facial spots, anterior supra alar setae, prescutellar setae, 2 scutellar setae present.
• Wing with discontinuous costal band to form a spot apically. Abdomen reddish brown with pecten on third tergum of males. (Ramani, 1997, White and Elson-Harris, 1992)

Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr., Anona squamosa L.,Careya arborea Roxb., Casimiroa edulis Llave & Lex, Citrus aurantium L., C.grandis Osbeck., C.limon (L.) Burman f., C.medica L., C.nobilis Lours, C.reticulata Blanco., C.sinensis (L.), Cucumis melo L., Diospyros blancoi A.DC,  Ficus carica L., Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl., Luffa acutangulaL(Roxb.), Luffa aegyptica Mill., Lycopersicum esculentum (L.) Karst., Malphigia glabra L.,  Mangifera indica L. , Prunus persica(L.) Batsch., Psidium guajava  L., Punica granatum L. , Pyrus communis  L., Solanum melongena L., Syzigium cumini (L.) Skeels., S. jambos (L.) Alston., Terminalia catappa L., Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.(Kapoor, 1993; Ramani, 1997).

Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu (Bhat, 1989; Agarwa l& Sueyoshi, 2005; David & Ramani, 2011).

Agarwal., M.L and Sueyoshi, M. (2005).  Catalogue of Indian Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).Oriental Ins., 39: 371-433.

Bhat, (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

Kapoor, V.C. (1993). Indian fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 228

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.