Entomotropica (2005) 20, 11-14
Adalton Raga, Rogério Amaro Machado, Miguel Francisco de Souza Filho, Mário Eidi Sato and Romildo Cássio Siloto (2005)
Ocorrência de espécies de Tephritoidea (Diptera) em frutos de Myrtaceae no Estado de São Paulo,Brasil
[Tephritoidea (Diptera) species from Myrtaceae fruits in the State of São Paulo, Brazil]
Entomotropica 20 (1), 11-14
Abstract: A field survey was conducted from August 1997 to January 2003 to identify the Tephritoidea diversity from 15 Myrtaceae species (including guavas) collected in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. A total of 38,386 fruits (419.93 kg) were collected from unsprayed trees. From 188 samples of fruits 25,162 puparia and 15,439 adults of Tephritoidea were recovered. Anastrepha spp. and Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) flies were obtained from 78.7% and 16.5% of the samples, respectively. About 95.8% of all flies belonged to Tephritidae (98.3% Anastrepha spp. and 1.7% C. capitata) and 4.2% belonged to Lonchaeidae (Neosilba spp.). From 14,540 specimens of Anastrepha, it was obtained 6,642 Anastrepha females identified as: A. fraterculus, A. bistrigata, A. obliqua, A. sororcula, A. zenildae, A. striata, A. turpiniae and A. bahiensis. Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied.) was dominant. Mean infestation indices were 0.66 puparium of Tephritoidea/fruit and 59.9 puparia/kg of fruit.
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(original language: Spanish)
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