Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society (2019) 51, 39-46

Luc Leblanc, Bishnu P. Bhandari, Lok Nath Aryal and Sanjaya Bista (2019)
New country records and annotated checklist of the Dacine fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) of Nepal
Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 51, 39-46
Abstract: Preliminary surveys for Dacine fruit flies were carried out in May 2015 and June 2017, with male lure (cue-lure, methyl eugenol, zingerone) traps maintained at 55 sites, (110–1,780 m elevation range), comprised mostly of Nepal Agricultural Research Council research stations. Twenty species were collected, including 11 new country occurrence and 2 new male lure association records. The most common species were fruit pests Bactrocera dorsalis (60.4% of all captures) and B. zonata (15.2%), and cucurbit pests Zeugodacus tau (9.5%) and Z. cucurbitae (8.7%). We present an annotated checklist of the 26 species now known to occur in Nepal, including 5 fruit and 6 cucurbit pests.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Bactrocera dorsalis		Nepal
	Zeugodacus cucurbitae		Nepal
	Bactrocera zonata		Nepal
	Zeugodacus caudatus		Nepal
	Zeugodacus diversus		Nepal
	Zeugodacus scutellatus		Nepal
	Zeugodacus tau		Nepal
	Bactrocera tuberculata		Nepal