Bactrocera

Genus of flies

Bactrocera
Bactrocera dorsalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Subfamily: Dacinae
Tribe: Dacini
Genus: Bactrocera
Macquart, 1835
Type species
Bactrocera longicornis
Macquart, 1835
Species

B. correcta
B. dorsalis
B. oleae
B. tryoni
B. zonata
B. divenderi
Hundreds more

Diversity
464 species
Synonyms
  • Aglaodacus Munro, 1984
  • Apodacus Perkins, 1939
  • Chaetodacus Bezzi, 1913
  • Dasyneura Saunders, 1842
  • Hemigymnodacus Hardy, 1973
  • Marquesadacus Malloch, 1932
  • Mauritidacus Munro, 1984
  • Strumeta Walker, 1856

Bactrocera is a large genus of tephritid fruit flies, with close to 500 species currently described and accepted.[1]

Name

The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek bakter "rod" and kera "horn".

Bactrocera sp. flies on an Anthurium inflorescence smelling of methyl eugenol

Systematics

Prior to the 1990s, almost all Dacini species were described in the genera Dacus or Strumeta. Bactrocera became the main genus for the tribe after Bactrocera and Dacus were split, but Bactrocera was further divided into Zeugodacus and Bactrocera in 2015.[2] The subgeneric treatments have only partly adopted this latest change, but are indicated here to reflect the most modern - DNA based - insights.[3][4]

Many subgenera are defined within this genus:[5][6][7][8][9][10]

  • Afrodacus
  • Aglaodacus
  • Apodacus
  • Asiadacus
  • Austrodacus
  • Bactrocera
  • Bulladacus
  • Calodacus
  • Daculus
  • Diplodacus
  • Gymnodacus
  • Hemigymnodacus
  • Heminotodacus
  • Hemiparatridacus
  • Hemisurstylus
  • Hemizeugodacus
  • Javadacus
  • Melanodacus
  • Neozeugodacus
  • Nesodacus
  • Niuginidacus
  • Notodacus
  • Papuodacus
  • Paradacus
  • Paratridacus
  • Parazeugodacus
  • Perkinsidacus
  • Queenslandacus
  • Semicallantra
  • Sinodacus
  • Tetradacus
  • Trypetidacus

See also

  • List of Bactrocera species

References

  1. ^ Doorenweerd, Camiel; Leblanc, Luc; Norrbom, Allen L.; San Jose, Michael; Rubinoff, Daniel (2018). "A global checklist of the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera, Tephritidae)". ZooKeys (730): 19–56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.730.21786. PMC 5799784. PMID 29416395.
  2. ^ De Meyer, Marc; Delatte, Hélène; Mwatawala, Maulid; Quilici, Serge; Vayssieres, Jean-François; Virgilio, Massimiliano (2015). "A review of the current knowledge on Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Africa, with a list of species included in Zeugodacus". ZooKeys (540): 539–557. doi:10.3897/zookeys.540.9672. PMC 4714087. PMID 26798277.
  3. ^ San Jose, Michael; Doorenweerd, Camiel; Leblanc, Luc; Barr, Norman; Geib, Scott; Rubinoff, Daniel (2018). "Incongruence between molecules and morphology: A seven-gene phylogeny of Dacini fruit flies paves the way for reclassification (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 121: 139–149. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.001. PMID 29224785.
  4. ^ Dupuis, Julian R.; Bremer, Forest T.; Kauwe, Angela; San Jose, Michael; Leblanc, Luc; Rubinoff, Daniel; Geib, Scott M. (2018). "HiMAP: Robust phylogenomics from highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing". Molecular Ecology Resources. 18 (5): 1000–1019. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12783. PMID 29633537.
  5. ^ Doorenweerd, Camiel; Leblanc, Luc; Norrbom, Allen L.; San Jose, Michael; Rubinoff, Daniel (2018). "A global checklist of the 932 fruit fly species in the tribe Dacini (Diptera, Tephritidae)". ZooKeys (730): 19–56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.730.21786. PMC 5799784. PMID 29416395.
  6. ^ Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2018) A review of the subgenera Apodacus Perkins, Hemizeugodacus Hardy, Neozeugodacus May, Stat. Rev., Semicallantra Drew and Tetradacus Miyake of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae). Australian Entomologist 45: 105–132.
  7. ^ Drew RAI, Hancock DL (2016) A review of the subgenus Bulladacus Drew & Hancock of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae), with description of two new species from Papua New Guinea. Australian Entomologist 43: 189–210.
  8. ^ Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2015) A review of the Indo-Australasian subgenus Parazeugodacus Shiraki of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Daciniae). Australian Entomologist 42: 91–104.
  9. ^ Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2017) A review of the pacific islands subgenus Notodacus Perkins of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae). Australian Entomologist 44: 113–120.
  10. ^ Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2019) Further notes on subgenus Tetradacus Miyake of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae), with a revised key to species. Australian Entomologist 46: 43–46.

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

Other

  • fauna.org.uk[permanent dead link]
  • "Bactrocera Macquart, 1835". Atlas of Living Australia.
  • Tephritid Workers Database
Taxon identifiers
Bactrocera


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