EPPO Global Database

Zeugodacus cucurbitae(DACUCU)

Distribution details in Guam

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1936
From CABI Pest map 064 (2003): Present, no details
Comments
Adventive populations.

EPPO Reporting Service (1993/37) : based on a report from SPC.

Leblanc (2022): detected 1936, eradicated 1965 but re-introduced from Northern Mariana Islands in 1981.
References
* Harris EJ (1975) Proceedings of a meeting on the sterile male technique for the control of fruit flies, Vienna, 12-16 November 1973, pp. 3-7. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.

* Leblanc L (1997) Fruit fly fauna in Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau, Kiribati, Northern Marianas and Marshall Islands, 64-67. Management of Fruit Flies in the Pacific. A Regional Symposium, Nadi, Fiji. ACIAR Proceedings No. 76.

* Leblanc L (2022) The dacine fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) of Oceania. Insecta Mundi 0948, 1-167. https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/131965/135549.