Scientific Name: Bactrocera caudata (Fabricius)
Common Name: "Bactrocera maculipennis Doleschall, Chaetodacus caudatus Fabricius and
Zeugodacus caudatus (Fabricius)."
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: caudata
Host : Bitter Snake gourd, Snake gourd, tomato, polyphagous
Distribution: Assam, bihar ,karnataka , kerala meghalaya, sikkim, telangana uttaranchal, west bengal
Body : Predominantly black with lateral and medial yellow scutal stripes
Head : A black transverse line across mouth opening extended laterally and almost forming a line across the mouth opening
Thorax: Scutum predominantly black; with lateral and medial yellow stripes. medial vitta narrow anteriorly and broadened posteriorly giving the apperance of a spatula; with anterior supra alar setae, prescutellar setae, 4 scutellar setae.
Legs :
Wings: Costal band expanded into an apical spot
Abdomen: T3-T5 tergits with medial dark stripe and a transverse dark line o T3; with separate dark areas on anterolateral margins of T3-T5. Male: posterior lobe of surstylus long .Female: apex of aculeus trilobed.