Scientific Name: Bactrocera latifrons
Common Name: Solanum fruit fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: latifrons
Host : Tomato, aubergine, sweet pepper, cucumber, melons, polyphagous
Distribution: South and south-east Asia Tanzania and Kenya
Body : A medium sized species
Head: Head: Pedicel+1st flagellomere not longer than ptilinal suture. Face with a dark spot in each antenna.
Thorax:. Predominant colour of scutum black. Postpronotal (=humeral) lobe entirely pale (yellow or orange). Notopleuron yellow. Scutum with lateral postsutural vittae (yellow/orange stripes); without a medial vitta. Scutellum entirely pale. Anepisternal stripe almost to postpronotal lobe. Yellow marking on both anatergite and katatergite. Postpronotal lobe (=humerus) without a seta. Notopleuron with anterior seta. Scutum with anterior supra-alar and prescutellar acrostichal setae. Scutellum without basal as well as apical setae.
Legs : Femora vary from entirely pale, to pale with a pre-apical dark spot, to darkened (either red-brown or black) in entire apical 1/3=1/2.
Wings: Wing: Length 4.4-6.1 mm. With a complete costal band which does not extend below R2+3; expanded into a spot at apex.Wing with an anal streak.Cells bc and c colourless. No transverse markings. Cell bc and c without extensive covering of microtrichia. Cell br (narrowed part) with extensive covering of microtrichia.
Abdomen:Predominant colour of abdomen orange-brown to fuscous. Tergites not fused. Abdomen not wasp waisted. .
Pattern on abdomen lacking or diffuse; if marked, then tergite 3 with a basal transverse dark band and sometimes with a medial stripe down T3-5.