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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tropical Fruit Flies (Dacinae) » Bactrocera » Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae)
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Bactrocera oleae ? - Bactrocera oleae
Copyright © 2013 Hartmut Wisch

Bactrocera oleae ? - Bactrocera oleae
Pasadena , Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 6, 2013
Size: ~ 4 mm

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Bactrocera oleae ? - Bactrocera oleae Bactrocera oleae ? - Bactrocera oleae
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 8 October, 2013 - 11:03am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Martin Hauser, 8 October, 2013 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
Oops -
this species isn't even in that book yet. When was it discovered in CA?
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 October, 2013 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

 
Could not find the exact date
Could not find the exact date but it is since the late 1990s and it is the only Bactrocera we do not fight anymore because it became established....
… Martin Hauser, 8 October, 2013 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks,
will let you know if I find any of the others!
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 October, 2013 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Martin -
After posting these I recalled that I had the Handbook by Foote et al. (1993) and could have keyed it.
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 October, 2013 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

 
Well you suspected it correct
Well you suspected it correctly! And this is exactly my line of work, to ID the different species of Bactrocera... B. correcta and B zonata have been found in CA and they look similar to B oleae, so keep an eye open for these dangerous pests.
… Martin Hauser, 8 October, 2013 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

 
Sure will keep my eyes open, Martin -
I see, the apical wing spots are quite similar on those other two spp.
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 October, 2013 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

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