Guava Fruit Fly Pest Profile

Common Name: Guava Fruit Fly

Scientific Name: Bactrocera correcta (Bezzi)

Order and Family: Diptera, Tephritidae

Description

Bactrocera correcta is a brightly-colored brown and yellow fly approximately six millimeters (mm) in length. The wings are clear with a yellow spot. The top of the body of both sexes are entirely yellow and the legs mostly yellow. The ovipositor of the female is red and rather short, measuring approximately 3.0 mm when fully extended. Immature stages of B. correcta have not been described in the literature.

History and Economic Importance

This fruit fly is strongly attracted to methyl eugenol and is detected in Oriental fruit fly detection traps baited with methyl eugenol. B. correcta has the potential to become a major pest of citrus, peach, and several kinds of tropical and subtropical fruit hosts.

Distribution

B. correcta occurs in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

Life Cycle

There is no developmental information on B. correcta , but it is probably similar to B. zonata . Bactrocera correcta lives in the company of B. zonata and B. tuberculatus , feeding on the same fruits.

Hosts and Damage

Recorded hosts include Citrus spp. , Coffea canephora , Eugenia uniflora , mango, peach, guava, castor bean, castor-oil-plant, roseapple, jujube, Chinese date, fig, and sapodilla. Hosts of B. zonata must be considered potential hosts for B. correcta.

Guava Fruit Fly Host List

Common Name	Scientific Name
Apple	Malus sylvestris
Date palm	Pheonix dactylifera
Fig	Ficus carica
Guava	Psidium guajava
Okra	Abelmoschus esculentus
Orange	Citrus sinensis
Papaya	Carica papaya
Peach	Prunus Persica
Pomegranate	Punica granatum
Quince	Cydonia oblonga
Sapodilla	Manikara zapota
Sapodilla, chiku	Achras zapota
Surinam cherry	Eugenia uniflora
Tomato	Lycopersicon esculentum
Tropical almond	Terminalia catappa\chebula