Bactrocera
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| Bactrocera dorsalis | |
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| Genus: | Bactrocera Macquart, 1835
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B. correcta | |
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Bactrocera is a large genus of tephritid fruit flies, with more than 500 species currently described.
Name
The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek bakter "rod" and kera "horn".
Systematics
Many subgenera are defined within this genus:
- Afrodacus
- Aglaodacus
- Apodacus
- Asiadacus
- Austrodacus
- Bactrocera
- Bulladacus
- Daculus
- Diplodacus
- Gymnodacus
- Hemigymnodacus
- Heminotodacus
- Hemiparatridacus
- Hemisurstylus
- Hemizeugodacus
- Javadacus
- Melanodacus
- Nesodacus
- Niuginidacus
- Notodacus
- Papuodacus
- Paradacus
- Paratridacus
- Parazeugodacus
- Queenslandacus
- Semicallantra
- Sinodacus
- Tetradacus
- Trypetidacus
- Zeugodacus
See also
Further reading
- Drew, R.A.I.; Raghu, S. (2002). "The fruit fly fauna (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) of the rainforest habitat of the Western Ghats, India" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 50 (2): 327–352. (with key to Indian Bactrocera species) — (description of new species B. amarambalensis, B. apiconigroscutella, B. neoarecae, B. neonigrotibialis, B. paraosbeckiae, B. paraverbascifoliae, B. penecorrecta, B. pseudoversicolor, B. yercaudiae and B. binoyi)
- Courtice, A.C. (2006). Of Peaches and Maggots, The Story of Queensland Fruit Fly. Hillside Books. ISBN 0958823901.
External links
On the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
- Bactrocera correcta , guava fruit fly
- Bactrocera cucurbitae, melon fly
- Bactrocera dorsalis, oriental fruit fly
- Bactrocera oleae, olive fruit fly
- Bactrocera tryoni, Queensland fruit fly
- Bactrocera tsuneonis, Japanese orange fly
- fauna.org.uk[permanent dead link]
- "Bactrocera Macquart, 1835". Atlas of Living Australia.
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