Coffea arabica 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 : 12-13

Coffea arabica L.

GRIN Nomen number: 300141

Family: Rubiaceae

Common Name: Arabian coffee (English), arabica coffee (English), Arabicakaffee (German), arabischer Kaffeebaum (German), arabischer Kaffeestrauch (German), arabiskt kaffe (Swedish), Bergkaffee (German), café (Portuguese-Brazil), cafeiro (Portuguese-Brazil), caféier d’Arabie (French), cafeiro (Portuguese), cafeto arábico (Spanish), cafeto de Arabia (Spanish), coffee (English), coffeetree (English), Kaffeestrauch (German), koffieboom (Afrikaans).

Native: AFRICA - Northeast Tropical Africa: southwestern Ethiopia; southeastern Sudan; East Tropical Africa: northeastern Kenya.

Naturalized: sometimes naturalized in tropics.

Cultivated: widely cultivated in tropics.

Field Infestation: Harris et al. 2003: From May 1991 to December 1992, a total of 1,062 fruits (3.01kg) was collected on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the island of Molokai. Only 1 adult fly was recovered for an overall infestation rate of 0.33 B. latifrons per kg of fruit.

Colocynthis citrullus (L.) Kuntze, see Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai

Cucurbita citrullus L., see Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai

Cucumis chito C. Morren , see Cucumis melo L.

Cucumis colossus (Rottler) Cogn. , see Cucumis melo L.

Cucumis hardwickii Royle , see Cucumis sativus L.