Scientific Name : Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)
Common Name : Oriental Fruit Fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: dorsalis
Host: Mango, papaya, almond, avocado, polyphagous
Distribution: South and South-East Asia Australasian -Oceanian
Body: Body predominantly black or dark fuscous, or a balanced mixture of black and yellow.
Head: Face with transverse sulcus, or with distinct antennal grooves, carina with dark spots in antennal furrows.
Thorax: Thorax with scutum black with orange to red-brown areas, or black. Number of pale whitish to yellow postsutural stripes two (lateral). Lateral postsutural stripes of scutum extending to intra-alar bristles or beyond. Black scutum, can have patches of brown to being mostly brown. Broader parallel sided vittae enclosing ia bristle".
Legs: Legs with femora all entirely of one colour. Fore tibia usually dark.
Wings: Wings with ratio of width of apical band in cell r4+5 to length of r-m 0.25–0.33. Narrow costal band dips in at end of R2+3.Very narrow anal streak"
Abdomen: Abdominal tergites with medial dark stripe on T3-T5 and a transverse dark line on T3. Female terminalia with r Ratio of syntergosternite 7 to abdominal tergite 5 0.7–0.75. Aculeus length 1.4–1.6 mm. T on abdomen, can be very reduced.