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in May 2004, with the support of th
Insect Pest Control Section
of th
Joint FAO/IAEA Centre
The Tephritid Workers Database is self-maintained by the participants and its development depends on the active contribution of the members. The TWD database has now more than 1000 members from more than 100 countries and is sponsoring or hosting websites of other regional fruit fly working groups:
The Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East (TEAM)
The Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH)
The Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania (TAAO)
International Organisation of Biological Control (IOBC)
This newsletter publication was interrupted in 1992 and then resumed in an electronic format since 2009. The first issues tell all the story about the creation of FFN and the Working Group on Fruit Flies (WGFF).
International Biological Program (IBP) Fruit Fly News n°1 (1972)
Fruit Fly News n°2 (1973)
IBP Fruit Fly News n°3 (1974)
IOBC/WPRS WG Rhagoletis cerasi Fruit Fly News n°4 (1977)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°5 (1979)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°6 (1981)
FFN #7_1983
FFN #8_1985
FFN #9_1987
FFN #10_1989
FFN #11_1992
Follow th
link
to get all Fruit Fly News issues.
IPC newsletters
TEAM newsletters
TAAO newsletters
Proceedings
* The Second International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Crete, Greece, 16–21 September 19
Proceedings
* The Third International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Antigua, Guatemala, 14–20 October 19
Book presentation
* The Fourth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Sand Key, Florida, USA, 5–10 June 19
Book presentation
* The Fifth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Penang, Malaysia, 1–5 June 19
Proceedings
* The Sixth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6–10 May 200
Proceedings
* The Seventh International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 10–15 September 2006
* The Eight International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Valencia, Spain, 26 September–1 October 2010
Proceedings
* The Ninth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Bangkok, Thailand, 12 to 16 May 2014
Book of AbstractsProceedings
* The Tenth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, 23 to 27 April 2018.
website
for full information. Bactrocera, Anastrepha, Ceratitis, Rhagoletis, and Dacus are the most important genera. The most important pest species of Tephritidae are: * ''
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Bactrocera zonata
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Distribution map
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tephritid
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus ''Drosophila'' (in the family Drosophilidae), ...
fruit flies. Because these species are one of the most economically important group of insect
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species
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that threaten fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.
Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in partic ...
and vegetable
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production and trade worldwide, a tremendous amount of information is made available each year: new technologies developed, new information on their biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditar ...
and ecology
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...
; new control methods made available, new species identified, new outbreak
In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire ...
s recorded and new operational control programmes launched. The TWD allows workers to keep up-to-date on the most recent developments and provides an easily accessible and always available resource.
History
A group of scientists involved in tephritid fruit fly research and management launched thTephritid Workers Database
in May 2004, with the support of th
Insect Pest Control Section
of th
Joint FAO/IAEA Centre
The Tephritid Workers Database is self-maintained by the participants and its development depends on the active contribution of the members. The TWD database has now more than 1000 members from more than 100 countries and is sponsoring or hosting websites of other regional fruit fly working groups:
The Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East (TEAM)
The Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH)
The Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania (TAAO)
Fruit Fly News
In the past, an information service for the tephritid fruit fly workers called FRUIT FLY NEWS (FFN) was issued annually under the auspices of the International Biological Program and then under thInternational Organisation of Biological Control (IOBC)
This newsletter publication was interrupted in 1992 and then resumed in an electronic format since 2009. The first issues tell all the story about the creation of FFN and the Working Group on Fruit Flies (WGFF).
International Biological Program (IBP) Fruit Fly News n°1 (1972)
Fruit Fly News n°2 (1973)
IBP Fruit Fly News n°3 (1974)
IOBC/WPRS WG Rhagoletis cerasi Fruit Fly News n°4 (1977)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°5 (1979)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°6 (1981)
FFN #7_1983
FFN #8_1985
FFN #9_1987
FFN #10_1989
FFN #11_1992
Follow th
link
to get all Fruit Fly News issues.
Insect Pest Control Newsletters
IPC newsletters
Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East Newsletters
TEAM newsletters
Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania Newsletters
TAAO newsletters
Previous Symposia of the International Fruit Fly Workers
Initiated in 1982 at the First International Symposium held inAthens
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, the quadrennial fruit fly symposium for the international fruit fly workers is being well established now with a large number of scientists from all over the world attending the symposium.
* The First International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Athens, Greece, 16–19 November 19Proceedings
* The Second International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Crete, Greece, 16–21 September 19
Proceedings
* The Third International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Antigua, Guatemala, 14–20 October 19
Book presentation
* The Fourth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Sand Key, Florida, USA, 5–10 June 19
Book presentation
* The Fifth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Penang, Malaysia, 1–5 June 19
Proceedings
* The Sixth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6–10 May 200
Proceedings
* The Seventh International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 10–15 September 2006
* The Eight International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Valencia, Spain, 26 September–1 October 2010
Proceedings
* The Ninth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Bangkok, Thailand, 12 to 16 May 2014
Book of Abstracts
* The Tenth International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, 23 to 27 April 2018.
website
Tephritid Fruit Flies of Economic Importance
According to White & Elson-Harris (1992),White I.M. and Elson-Harris M.M. 1992. Fruit flies of economic significance : their identification and bionomics. C.A.B. International in association with Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Wallingford, Oxon, UK, 601p. there are about 70 species of fruit flies that are considered important agricultural pests. Sefor full information. Bactrocera, Anastrepha, Ceratitis, Rhagoletis, and Dacus are the most important genera. The most important pest species of Tephritidae are: * ''
Bactrocera dorsalis
''Bactrocera dorsalis'', previously known as ''Dacus dorsalis'' and commonly referred to as the oriental fruit fly, is a species of tephritid fruit fly that is endemic to Southeast Asia. It is one of the major pest species in the genus ''Bactroc ...
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* ''Bactrocera cucurbitae
''Bactrocera cucurbitae'', the melon fly, is a fruit fly of the family Tephritidae. It is a serious agricultural pest, particularly in Hawaii.
Identification
Adult fly
The adult melon fly is 6 to 8 mm in length. Distinctive characteristic ...
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* ''Bactrocera oleae
The olive fruit fly (''Bactrocera oleae'') is a species of fruit fly which belongs to the subfamily Dacinae. It is a phytophagous species whose larvae feed on the fruit of olive trees, hence the common name. It is considered a serious pest in t ...
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* ''Bactrocera tryoni
The Queensland fruit fly (''Bactrocera tryoni'') is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae in the insect order Diptera. ''B. tryoni'' is native to subtropical coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales. They are active during the day, b ...
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* Bactrocera zonata
' * '' Bactrocera invadens'' * ''
Ceratitis capitata
''Ceratitis capitata'', commonly known as the Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly, is a yellow-and-brown fly native to sub-Saharan Africa. It has no near relatives in the Western Hemisphere and is considered to be one of the most destructive fr ...
''Distribution map
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Anastrepha
''Anastrepha'' is the most diverse genus in the Americas, American tropics and subtropics. Currently, it comprises more than 300 described species, including nine major pest species, such as the Mexican fruit fly (''A. ludens''), the South Americ ...
fraterculus''
* ''Anastrepha ludens
''Anastrepha ludens'', the Mexican fruit fly or ''Mexfly'', is a species of fly of the '' Anastrepha'' genus in the Tephritidae family (fruit flies). It is closely related to the Caribbean fruit fly ''Anastrepha suspensa'', and the papaya fruit ...
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* ''Anastrepha obliqua
''Anastrepha obliqua'' is a species of fruit fly. It is the most important fruit fly pest of mangoes in Neotropics and attacks a wide range of other spicy fruits. ''A. obliqua'' is widespread in Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indi ...
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* ''Rhagoletis pomonella
The apple maggot (''Rhagoletis pomonella''), also known as the railroad worm (but distinct from the ''Phrixothrix'' beetle larva, also called railroad worm), is a species of fruit fly, and a pest of several types of fruits, especially apples. Th ...
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* ''Rhagoletis cerasi
''Rhagoletis cerasi'' (the cherry fruit fly or European cherry fruit fly) is a species of fruit fly in the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
This species is widespread in most of Europe, except British Islands, in western Siberia to Caucasus, in ...
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* ''Dacus ciliatus
''Dacus'' is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Systematics
Many subgenera are defined within this genus:Hancock DL, Drew RAI (2006) A revised classification of subgenera and species groups in Dacus Fabricius (Dipt ...
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References
Further reading
* Cavalloro, R. (ed.) (1986). Fruit Flies of Economic Importance 84: Proceedings of the Cec/Iobc AD Hoc Meeting, Held in Hamburg, on 23 August 1984. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. 224p. * Cavalloro, R. (ed.) (1989). Fruit flies of economic importance 87. Proceedings of the CEC/IOBC International Symposium, Rome, April 7–10, 1987. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. 640 p. * Robinson, A. S. & Hooper, G. (eds.) (1989). Fruit flies. Their biology, natural enemies, and control, Vol. 3(B). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Ltd. 448 p. * Vijaysegaran, S. & Ibrahim, A. G. (eds.) (1991). First International Symposium on Fruit Flies in the Tropics, Kuala Lumpur, 1988. Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute & Malaysian Plant Protection Society, Kuala Lumpur. vii + 430p. * White, I. M. & Elson-Harris, M. (1992). Fruit flies of economic significance: their identification andbionomics Bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) has two different meanings:
* the first is the comprehensive study of an organism and its relation to its environment. As translated from the French word ''Bionomie'', its first use in English was in the p ...
. London: International Institute of Entomology. 601 p.
* Aluja, M. and Liedo, P. (Eds.) (1993). Fruit Flies: Biology and Management. Springer Verlag, New York.
* Calkins, C.O.; Klassen, W.; Liedo, P.(eds.) (1994). Fruit Flies and the Sterile Insect Technique. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. 272 pp. 1994.
* Aluja, M. & Norrbom, A. L. (eds.) (1999). Fruit flies (Tephritidae): phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...
and evolution of behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 6+ 944 p. {{ISBN, 0-8493-1275-2
Dyck, V.A, J. Hendrichs and A.S. Robinson (Eds) (2005). Sterile Insect Technique. Principles and practice in area-wide integrated pest management. Springer Publisher, The Netherlands
External links
TWD Official website
Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East (TEAM)
Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH)
Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania region (TAAO)
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Tephritidae
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus ''Drosophila
''Drosophila'' () is a ge ...
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