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.