Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq.

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 : 24-25

Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq.

GRIN Nomen number: 100446

Family: Solanaceae

Common Name: Dutch eggplant (English), kikania (Hawaiian), lei kikania (Hawaiian), love-apple (English).

Native: AFRICA - Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; East Tropical Africa: Tanzania, Uganda; West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire; West Tropical Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone; South Tropical Africa: Malawi, Zambia; Southern Africa: Lesotho, South Africa - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Western Cape; SOUTHERN AMERICA - Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo Southern South America: Paraguay - Guaira.

Naturalized: ASIA-TEMPERATE - China: China; ASIA-TROPICAL - Indian Subcontinent; India - Assam.

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 197 samples. No infestation rate data given.

Clarke et al. 2001: From 1986 to 1994, a total of 66.6 kg of infested fruits was collected in two regions of Thailand (Bangkok and Songkhla). Collected fruits had infestation rates of 41.4 and 81.8 B. latifrons per kg of infested fruits, respectively. Flies identified by either R.A.I. Drew or D.L. Hancock.

Harris et al. 2003: From May 1991 to December 1992, a total of 2,575 fruits (23.2 kg) was collected on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the island of Molokai. Nine adult flies were recovered for an overall infestation rate of 0.39 B. latifrons per kg of fruit.

Matsuzawa 1985: Three B. latifrons adults were recovered from a single lei made from fresh S. aculeatissimum fruits (“kikania-lei”) present in baggage at Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan.

PestID 2011: Bactrocera latifrons was recovered by USDA-APHIS-PPQ from S. aculeatissimum fruits on two occasions at the airport in Honolulu, Hawaii (“interception”) (August 1995 and May 2000), with an average recovery of 1 living immature.

Ramadan and Messing 2003: From January to February 1996 a total of 0.5 kg of fruits was collected from Hatyai, Rattaphum, and Betong, Thailand, from which 7 B. latifrons adults were recovered, with an overall infestation rate of 14.0 B. latifrons per kg of fruit.

Listing Only: Hawaii Department of Agriculture 2009; Harris et al. 2001; Liquido et al. 1994; Matsuzawa 1985; Vargas and Nishida 1985a.