Bactrocera frauenfeldi
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Author(s): Lesley Ingram
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Bactrocera frauenfeldi (Schiner, 1868) - (white striped fruit fly, mango fly)
This fruit fly prefers a tropical environment. Common hosts are guava, mango and beach almond (Terminalia). However, regarding its common name, it should be noted that the name "mango fruit fly" is also used for the African species Ceratitis cosyra.
B. frauenfeldi has a wide distribution in south-eastern Asia, northern Australia and parts of the Pacific. This includes Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the west. In northern Australia, it was first detected in northern Queensland in 1974 and has been spreading south since then. A small pocket in the Northern Territory has been originally described as a separate species, B. parafrauenfeldi, but this name is now regarded as a synonym. B. frauenfeldi is further found in many tropical islands of the western and central Pacific like Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. In addition, it has been recorded in California in 2008 and 2009 as a quarantine pest (Papadopoulos et al., 2013).
The form of B. frauenfeldi found in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines has been long referred to as Bactrocera albistrigata. However, both names are now regarded as synonyms following detailed molecular analyses by Doorenweerd et al. (2023).
Synonyms:
Bactrocera albistrigata
Bactrocera parafrauenfeldi
- Other images of Bactrocera frauenfeldi (Wikimedia Commons and IPM Images - click to enlarge)
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