Dacus ciliatus (LOEW, 1862)

Soltanizadeh, Zohreh, Saghaei, Nazila & Ostovan, Hadi, 2015, A Contribution to the Fauna of Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Fars Province, Southern Iran, Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 925-937 : 927

Dacus ciliatus (LOEW, 1862)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 35♀♀; 4033: Fars, Farough , 29º15’N, 53º25’E, 16.ix.2013, Malaise trap in alfalfa field .

H o s t r e c o r d s f r o m I r a n: Cucurbitaceae (Melon, Cantaloupe, Cucumber, Watermelon, Gourd) (SIRJANI & KAMALI 1995, PARCHAMI ARAGHI 1995).

H o s t s o u t s i d e I r a n: Asclepiadaceae , Cucurbitaceae , African subgenuses have been reared from the fruit or flower buds of Passifloraceae , Apocynaceae and Periplocaceae (ALUJA & NORRBOM 1999) , Many species of Cucurbitaceae , wild growing colocynth (WHITE & ELSON- HARRIS 1992), Citrullus lanatus THUNB. , Coccinia grandis L., Cucumis sativus L., Luffa aegyptiaca MILL. , Momordica charantia L. ( Cucurbitaceae ) ( ALLWOOD et al. 1999).

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Fars, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Khorasan Razavi, Tehran ( PARCHAMI ARAGHI 1995, SIRJANI 1995, SIRJANI & KAMALI 1995, GILASIAN 2007), Kurdistan (MOHMMADZADE NAMIN & NOZARI 2011a).

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Africa, Atlantic Islands, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen People's Democratic Republic, Yemen Arab Republic, probably in Iran, Oriental (WHITE & ELSON- HARRIS 1992), Senegal East to Somalia, South Africa, Madagascar, introduced Mauritius, Reunion, Israel & Egypt East to Burma ( NORRBOM et al. 1998), An Afrotropical species which is also found in the Middle East and South Asia ( MERZ et al. 2006).