Scientific Name: Bactrocera papayae Drew & Hancock
Common Name: Asian Papaya Fruit Fly
Taxonomic position
Class : Insect
Order: Diptera
Family: Tephritidae
Genus : Bactrocera
Species: papayae
Host : Cashew, papaya, pomelo, mango and guava, 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: Head with frontofacial angle much greater than a right angle and rounded.
Thorax:. Thorax with scutum black with orange to red-brown areas, or black; Without a large dark central stripe which broadens basally. Postpronotal lobe entirely pale whitish or yellowish; concolorous with lateral postsutural stripe. Posterior half of notopleuron pale whitish or yellowish. Scutum dorsad of notopleuron of the ground color, not whitish or yellowish.
Legs : Legs with femora all entirely of one colour.
Wings: Wings with cell bm broad, parallel-sided;Ratio of length to width 1.8–1.9; ratio of width to cell cup width 2.5.Abdominal tergites with medial dark stripe on T3-T5 and a transverse dark line on T3, with separate dark areas on anterolateral margins of T3-T5