Scientific Name: Bactrocera tryoni(Froggatt)
Common Name: Queensland Fruit Fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: tryoni
Host: Grapefruit, sweet orange, Mandarin orange, sour orange, lemon, papaya, guava, mango, polyphagous
Distribution: Australasian - Oceanian
Body : Medium sized fruit fly species
Head: Medium sized black facial spots present.
Thorax: Medium sized black facial spots present . Humeral and notopleural calli yellow. Mesonotum red-brown with fuscous markings, mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleural callus and anterior notopleural. Bristle, lateral postsutural vittae present, medial postsutural vitta absent. Scutellum yellow.
Legs :
Wings: Wing with a narrow fuscous costal band and broad fuscous anal streak .Costal cells fuscous, microtrichia covering second costal cell and outer V2 of first costal cell.
Abdomen: Abdominal terga III-V generally red-brown with a medial and 2 broad lateral longitudinal fuscous bands over all 3 terga and joined along anterior margin of tergum III Paler forms of the abdomen are often present.