EPPO Global Database

Zeugodacus cucurbitae(DACUCU)

Distribution details in Kiribati

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Absent, pest eradicated
First recorded in: 1987
Eradication in: 1989
From CABI Pest map 064 (2003): Present, no details
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (1993/37) , based on a report from the SPC.
References
* 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.
------- States that the pest was eradicated.

* 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.
------- eradicated in 1989.

* Waterhouse, D. F. (1993) The major arthropod pests and weeds of agriculture in Southeast Asia. ACIAR Monograph No. 21. ACIAR, Canberra, Australia.