True fruit flies of India

Chaetodacus ferrugineus incisus Bezzi, 1916: 105 (partim), not Walker, 1861 [Misidentification]

Dacus (Strumeta) caryeae Kapoor, 1971: 479.

Dacus (Bactrocera) caryeae- Hardy, 1977: 49.

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) caryeae- White and Elson-Harris, 1992: 186; Drew and Romig, 2013: 63.

Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini

• Face with elongate-oval facial spots.
• Scutum black with narrow yellow lateral post sutural vittae.
• Legs with large dark fuscous black subapical markings on all femora.
• Wing with costal band continuous from cell sc to wing apex confluent with vein R2+3.

Psidium guajava L., Mangifera indica L., Psidium guajava L., Persea americana Mill., Malphigia glabra L., Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston, Aegle marmelos (L.), Cassimiroa edulis La Llave & Lex., Citrus grandis Osbeck, Citrus maxima Merr. and Citrus sp. (Kapoor, 1993; Ramani, 1997, Ramani et al., 2008)

Methyl Eugenol

Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (Bhat, 1989; Ramani,1997, Agarwal & Sueyoshi, 2005; Ramani et al., 2008; David et al., 2008)

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

Bezzi, M., 1916, On the fruit-flies of the genus Dacus (s.l.) occurring in India, Burma, and Ceylon. Bull. Entomol. Res, 7: 99–121.

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.

Hardy, D. E. 1977, Family Tephritidae (Trypetidae, Trupaneidae). In: Delfinado, M.D. and Hardy, D. E. (eds) A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region, Vol. III, Suborder Cyclorrhapha (excluding Division Aschiza). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 44?134.

Kapoor, V. C., 1971, Four new species of fruit flies (Tephritidae) in India. Orient. Insects, 5: 477–482.

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.

Ramani, S., David, K. J., Viraktamath, C. A. and Kumar, A. R. V. 2008. Identity and distribution of Bactrocera caryeae (Kapoor) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae)- A species under the Bactrocera dorsalis complex in India. Biosystematica, 2(1): 49-57.

White, I .M. and Elson–Harris, M. M., 1992, Fruit flies of economic significance: their identification and bionomics. CAB International, Wallingford, UK., pp601.