Emerging pests are increasingly threatening fruit orchard health across the Mediterranean area. Tephritidae, representing serious threats for Europe, are numerous, and the fruit flies …
As genomic data proliferates, the prevalence of post-speciation gene flow is making species boundaries and relationships increasingly ambiguous. Although current approaches …
CM Ward, RA Aumann, MA Whitehead… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mass releases of sterilized male insects, in the frame of sterile insect technique programs, have helped suppress insect pest populations since the 1950s. In the major horticultural …
DL Hancock, RAI Drew - TheAustralian Entomologist, 2018 - search.informit.org
The'Bactrocera'Macquart subgenus' Zeugodacus' Hendel is reviewed using morphological, biological, biogeographical and molecular data. As a result, three subgenera are …
Abstract The tribe Dacini (Diptera: Tephritidae) contains over 930 recognised species and has been widely studied due to the economic importance of some taxa, such as the Oriental …
Abstract The Oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), a global pest that can decimate regional fruit industries and elicit international quarantines, has been the subject of …
Species that are dispersed across oceanic islands can have strong population structure due to genetic isolation, which makes it difficult to determine realistic and meaningful species …
RAI Drew, DL Hancock - Zootaxa, 2022 - biotaxa.org
Abstract The genus Bactrocera Macquart comprises a large group of some 750 species distributed across the Asia-Pacific and Afrotropical regions. Most of these have been …
Tephritid fruit flies are amongst the most devastating pests of horticulture, and Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programs have been developed for their control. Their interactions with …