Scientific Name: Bactrocera jarvisi (Tryon)
Common Name: Jarvis fruit fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: jarvisi
Host : Banana, Mango, Papaya, Cashew etc Polyphagous
Distribution: Australasian - Oceanian
Body : A yellow to orange-brown species
Head: Medium sized irregularly oval black facial spots present
Thorax: Lateral yellow stripes on the scutum, facial spots, prescutellar acrostichal setae, 2 scutellar setae, and a typical dacine wing pattern.Male with a pecten. Without supra-alar setae.
Legs :
Wings: Wing with a narrow fuscous costal band and broad fuscous anal streak cells bc and c colourless with microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only.
Abdomen: Abdominal terga III-V orange-brown except for a fuscous to black transverse band across anterior margin of tergum III . Fuscous to black medial longitudinal band generally over all three terga but often variable. Posterior lobe of male surstylus long; female with aculeus tip needle shaped.