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Bactrocera is a large genus of tephritid
Tephritidae

Tephritidae is one of two Diptera family referred to as "fruit flies". Tephritidae does not include the model organism of the genus Drosophila, which is often called the "common fruit fly"....
 fruit flies, with more than 500 species currently described.








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Bactrocera is a large genus of tephritid
Tephritidae

Tephritidae is one of two Diptera family referred to as "fruit flies". Tephritidae does not include the model organism of the genus Drosophila, which is often called the "common fruit fly"....
 fruit flies, with more than 500 species currently described.

Name

The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 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

  • List of Bactrocera species
    List of Bactrocera species

    This is a list of species of fruit flies in the genus Bactrocera, as of 2006.* Bactrocera abbreviata * Bactrocera abdoangusta * Bactrocera abdoaurantiaca Drew, 1989...


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. 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. Published by Hillside Books (www.hillsidebooks.com). Keywords: History of Entomology; history of Tephritidae - pest species; origin of Tephritidae - pest species; history of Queensland fruit fly; History of Dacus tryoni; History of Mediterranean fruit fly, Med fly; history of Ceratitis capitata; history of Oriental fruit fly; history of Dacus dorsalis; history of Melon fly; history of Dacus cucurbitae.


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