Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- face fulvous with a pair of black spots
- scutum black
- postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
- mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. seta
- lateral and medial postsutural yellow vittae absent
- scutellum yellow
- wing with cells bc and c colourless
- cell sc. fuscous
- a small fuscous spot around apex of vein R4+5 (costal bland absent)
- anal streak absent
- abdominal terga III – V red-brown with dark fuscous to black anterolateral corners on terga III and IV
- posterior lobe of male surstylus short
- female with aculeus tip needle shaped
Morphological – larvae
See Pest Fruit Flies of the World – Larvae
Molecular
DNA barcoding
Diagnostic BOLD reference data available.
COI data
B. oleae OLE001 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. oleae OLE002 Abdomen/Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. oleae OLE003 Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. oleae OLE004 Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. oleae OLE005 Wing variation Folmers COI
B. oleae OLE006 Scutum variation Folmers COI
RPA2 data
B. oleae OLE001 Classic morphology RPA2
B. oleae OLE003 Scutum variation RPA2
B. oleae OLE004 Scutum variation RPA2
DDOSTs2 data
B. oleae OLE001 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. oleae OLE003 Scutum variation DDOSTs2
B. oleae OLE004 Scutum variation DDOSTs2
POP4 data
B. oleae OLE001 Classic morphology POP4
B. oleae OLE003 Scutum variation POP4
B. oleae OLE004 Scutum variation POP4
B. oleae OLE006 Scutum variation POP4
EIF3L data
B. oleae OLE001 Classic specimen EIF3L
B. oleae OLE003 Scutum variation EIF3L
B. oleae OLE004 Scutum variation EIF3L
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: data not available
HinfI: data not available
HhaI: data not available
Sau3AI: data not available
SnaBI: data not available
SspI: data not available
Vspl: data not available
PCR-RFLP Test 2
A combination of AluI, DraI, RsaI and SspI produces a diagnostic pattern.
AluI: 680, 240, 170, 130, 120, 110
DraI: 1120,170, 130, 100
RsaI: 430, 400, 370, 290
SspI: 1150, 350