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<em>Bactrocera bryoniae</em>

Bactrocera bryoniae

Previous scientific names: Chaetodacus bryoniae Tryon, Strumeta bryoniae, Dacus (Strumeta) bryoniae

Diagnosis

Morphological – adult

Features include:

  • large species
  • irregularly circular black facial spots present
  • postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
  • scutum dull black, mesopleural stripe slightly wider than notopleuron, lateral postsutural vittae present, medial postsutural vitta absent, scutellum yellow
  • wing with a broad fuscous costal band and anal streak, cells bc and c fulvous, microtrichia covering outer ½ of cell c only
  • abdominal terga III-V orange-brown with a medial and two lateral longitudinal dark bands joined along anterior margin of tergum III
  • posterior lobe of male surstylus short; female with aculeus tip needle shaped (Drew 1989; pers. comm. Drew 2010).

Morphological – larvae

Information not available.

Molecular

Host Range

Polyphagous recorded from 9 hosts from 5 families including Cucurbitaceae, Loganiaceae, Musaceae, Passifloraceae and Solanaceae (for a full list of recorded hosts see Hancock et al. 2000).

It has been bred from banana in Papua New Guinea (Leblanc et al. 2001).

Major commercial hosts:

Capsicum annuum (chilli)

Distribution

Indonesia (Papua, formerly part of Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea (every province except Bougainville and Manus), and Australia (South East Queensland, Central Queensland, Northern Queensland, Northern Western Australia, Northern Territory, east coast south to Sydney, New South Wales, and the Torres Strait Islands) (Drew and Romig 2013).

Similar species

Superficially similar to B. dorsalis complex species in having a black scutum and T on the abdomen, except it is cue-responsive and has a very broad costal band to R4+5.

In cue traps it is most similar to B. trivialis except it has a distinct T on the abdomen and a very broad costal band.

Pest Status

  • Australian
  • Low level pest species in Queensland but not in Western Australia or the Northern Territory

Attractant/Lure

Cue lure group. In north Queenslandd this species was significantly more attracted to Melolure (raspberry ketone formate) than cue-lure (Royer 2015).