Scientific Name: Zeugodacus tau (Walker)
Common Name: Pumpkin Fruit Fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: tau
Host :Anacardiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Moraceae, Myrtaceae polyphagous
Distribution: Europe and Northern Asia South and South-East Asia
Body: Body a balanced mixture of black and yellow
Head First flagellomere as long as face, rounded apically. Face with round facial spots.
Thorax: Thorax with number of pale whitish to yellow post sutural stripes three. Sub scutellum yellowish to orange-brown medially, with distinct dark spots laterally.
Legs : Fore femur yellow/pale, sometimes with a dark preapical spot. Mid and hind femora pale.
Wings: Wings with distance between cross vein r-m and costa shorter than r-m; posterodistal corner of cell dm distinctly acute.
Abdomen: Abdominal tergites with separate dark areas on anterolateral margins of T3-T5. Abdominal terga III-V fulvous with a black ‘T’ pattern and anterolateral corners of terga IV and V with broad black markings; Posterior lobe of male surstylus short; female with apex of aculeus trilobed.