Psidium guajava L.

McQuate, Grant T. & Liquido, Nicanor J., 2013, Annotated World Bibliography of Host Fruits of Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (289), pp. 1-61 : 23

Psidium guajava L.

GRIN Nomen number: 30205

Family: Myrtaceae

Common Name: amrood (India-Hindi), araçá-goiaba (Portuguese-Brazil), araçá-guaçú (Portuguese- Brazil), banjir (Japanese R maji), goiaba (Portuguese), goiabeiro (Portuguese), goyavier (French), guaiaba (Portuguese-Brazil), guaiava (Portuguese-Brazil), guava (English), guava (Swedish), Guave (German), Guavenbaum (German), guayaba (Spanish), guayabo (Spanish) Guayave (German), koejawel (Afrikaans), lemon guava (English), yellow guava (English).

Native: NORTHERN AMERICA - Mexico; SOUTHERN AMERICA - Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela; Brazil: southeastern Brazil; Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Southern South America: northern Argentina; Paraguay.

Naturalized: widely naturalized.

Cultivated: widely cultivated.

Field Infestation: Allwood et al. 1999: From fruit collections in Peninsular Malaysia (1986 to 1988) and in East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) and Thailand (1990 to 1994) B. latifrons was recovered from 1 sample. No infestation rate data given.

Listing Only: Liquido et al. 1994 (note, though, that this paper includes the comment: “R. Drew [Queensland Dept. of Primary Industries, personal communication] contends that this is an erroneous record, probably based on misidentification of B. dorsalis ”); White and Elson-Harris 1992 (“a doubtful record”); Vijaysegaran 1991; Yunus and Ho 1980.

Psidium pomiferum L., see Psidium guajava L.

Psidium pumilum Vahl , see Psidium guajava L.

Psidium pyriferum L., see Psidium guajava L.