Bactrocera (Bactrocera) curvipennis ( Froggatt, 1909 )

Leblanc, Luc, 2022, The dacine fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) of Oceania, Insecta Mundi 2022 (948), pp. 1-167 : 114-115

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Bactrocera (Bactrocera) curvipennis ( Froggatt, 1909) View in CoL

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Distribution ( Fig. 103 View Figure 103 ). New Caledonia (mainland, Maré, Lifou).

Male lure. Cue-lure, isoeugenol. Isoeugenol is a more potent attractant than cue-lure for that species, which is also attracted to a lesser extent to dihydroeugenol ( Royer et al. 2019a).

Host plants. Category B polyphagous fruit pest ( Vargas et al. 2015) bred from 42 host species in 20 families. ANACARDIACEAE : Anacardium occidentale , Mangifera indica . ANNONACEAE : Annona reticulata , A. squamosa . APOCYNACEAE : Cascabela thevetia , Ochrosia elliptica . CALOPHYLLACEAE : Calophyllum inophyllum . CARICACEAE : Carica papaya . COMBRETACEAE : Terminalia catappa . CONVOLVULACEAE : Distimake tuberosus . EBENACEAE : Diospyros macrocarpa . LOGANIACEAE : Neuburgia novocaledonica . MALPIGHIA- CEAE: Malpighia glabra . MORACEAE : Ficus pancheriana , Morus alba . MYRTACEAE : Eugenia uniflora , Psidium acutangulum , P. cattleianum , P. guajava , Syzygium jambos , S. malaccense . OLACACEAE : Ximenia americana . OXALIDACEAE : Averrhoa carambola . PASSIFLORACEAE : Passiflora foetida . RHAMNACEAE : Ziziphus jujuba . ROSACEAE : Eriobotrya japonica , Fragaria vesca , Prunus domestica , P. persica , P. simonii . RUBIACEAE : Coffea arabica , Coffea sp. , Guettarda speciosa . RUTACEAE : Casimiroa edulis , Citrus japonica , C. × latifolia , C. maxima , C. paradisi , C. reticulata , Citrus sinensis . SOLANACEAE : Capsicum annuum , Solanum lycopersicum .

Edible hosts common names. Acerola, cashew, coffee, common guava, custard apple, grapefruit, jujube, kumquat, loquat, Malay-apple, mango, nectarine, orange, papaya, peach, plum, pomelo, rose-apple, starfruit, strawberry, strawberry guava, sugar-apple, Surinam cherry, sweet pepper, Tahitian lime, tangerine, tomato, tropical almond, white mulberry, white sapote, wild watermelon, yellow plum.

Biology. Adults mate in the morning, just after dawn, which is unique among all Dacinae ( Mille 2010) . Under laboratory conditions, eggs hatch after 2.25 days and larval development takes about nine days ( Mille 2010). Formerly the dominant species in New Caledonia, abundant throughout the year around Nouméa ( Cochereau 1970), it became uncommon after the introduction of B. tryoni ( Amice and Sales 1997a) . Monthly trapping data illustrated on Figure 104 View Figure 104 and in Cochereau (1970).

Notes. Heat tolerance of immature stages investigated in New Caledonia by Sales et al. (1997).

References

Amice R, Sales F. 1997 a. Fruit fly fauna in New Caledonia. p. 68 - 76. In: Allwood AJ, Drew RAI (eds.). Management of fruit flies in the Pacific. ACIAR Proceedings No 76. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Canberra. 267 p.

Cochereau P. 1970. Les mouches des fruits et leurs parasites dans la zone Indo-Australo-Pacifique et particulierement en Nouvelle-Caledonie. Cahiers de l'ORSTOM, Serie Biologie. 12: 15 - 50.

Drew RAI, Hancock DL. 1995. New species, subgenus and records of Bactrocera Macquart from the South Pacific (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 7 - 11.

Froggatt WW. 1909. Part III. Fruit flies. A general account of the flies belonging to the family Trypetidae, that damage sound fruit, with descriptions of the different species (some described as new) and their habits, range, and suggestions for destroying them. p. 73 - 115. In: Official report on fruit fly and other pests in various countries 1907 - 1908. Report on parasitic and injurious insects. New South Wales Department of Agriculture; Sydney, Australia. 115 p.

Mille C. 2010. Les mouches des fruits de Nouvelle-Caledonie (Diptera: Tephritidae): systematique, comportement, dynamique et gestion des populations. Universite de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Doctoral thesis ED 469. 349 p.

Royer JE, Mille C, Cazeres S, Brinon J, Mayer DG. 2019 a. Isoeugenol, a more attractive male lure for the Cue-Lure-responsive pest fruit fly Bactrocera curvipennis (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae), and new records of species responding to Zingerone in New Caledonia. Journal of Economic Entomology 112: 1502 - 1507.

Sales F, Palaud D, Maindonald J. 1997. Comparison of egg and larval stage mortality of three fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) after immersion in hot water. p. 247 - 250. In: Allwood AJ, Drew RAI (eds.). Management of fruit flies in the Pacific. ACIAR Proceedings No 76. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Canberra. 267 p.

Vargas RI, Pinero JC, Leblanc L. 2015. An overview of pest species of Bactrocera fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and the integration of biopesticides with other biological approaches for their management with a focus on the Pacific region. Insects 6: 297 - 318.

Figures

Figure 19. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) curvipennis (Froggatt). A) Head. B) Head and scutum. C) Abdomen, female. D) Abdomen, male. E) Wing. F) Wing, basal costal and costal cells. G) Lateral view, female.

Figure 103. Distribution of polyphagous pest fruit flies in Oceania: Bactrocera curvipennis (Froggatt), B. passiflorae (Froggatt), B. passiflorae (species near), B. facialis (Coquillett), and B. melanotus (Coquillett). Photos by Steve Wilson and Gerald McCormak (B. melanotus). Drawing of B. sp. nr. passiflorae from Drew and Hancock (1995).

Figure 104. Mean (±SE) daily captures of Bactrocera curvipennis (Froggatt) in cue-lure traps maintained in New Caledonia (Mainland) between January 1996 and December 1998, based on 20 trapping sites (n = 720, mean FTD = 0.19).