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

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) curvipennis ( Froggatt, 1909)

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Distribution ( Fig. 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 and in Cochereau (1970).

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

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).