EPPO Global Database

Zeugodacus cucurbitae(DACUCU)

Distribution details in Solomon Islands

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, restricted distribution
From CABI Pest map 064 (2003): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
Became established in the Shortland Islands group, where it has been subjected to an eradication campain using a combination of bait spraying and male annihilation with cue-lure traps.

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

Leblanc (2022): present in shortland Group, Choiseul, Vella Lavella, Gizo, Kolombangara, New Georgia, Isabel, Russell, Guadalcanal, Malaita)
References
* Anon. (1989) Annual report 1986, Research Department, Minsitry of Agriculture and Lands, Solomon Islands, 107 pp.
------- B. cucurbitae, thought to be eradicated in 1985, was quite widely distributed in the Western Province.

* Eta, C. R. (1986) Review - eradication of the melonfly from Shortland Islands, Western Province, Solomon Islands. Solomon Islands, Agriculture Quarantine Service, 1985 Annual Report, pp. 14-23.
------- Reported from the Shortland Islands.

* FAO (1985) FAO Plant Protection Bulletin 33 (2), 76.
------- Specimens of B. cucurbitae were trapped on one of the islands of the Bougainville group of the Solomon Islands in October 1984.

* 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.
------- Shortland Group, Choiseul, Vella Lavella, Gizo, Kolombangara, New Georgia, Isabel, Russell, Guadalcanal, Malaita)

* Macfarlane, R. (1985) Annual report 1984, Research Department, Agriculture Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Solomon Islands, pp. 40-43.
------- First record of B. cucurbitae in the Solomon Islands.

* Macfarlane, R. (1987) Solomon Islands, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Resarch Department, Agriculture Division, Annual Report 1985, pp. 51-53.
------- An outbreak is reported from Giza Island after an eradication programme in 1985.

* NHM (1984).

* Vagalo, M.; Hollingsworth, R.; Tsatsia, F. (1997) Fruit fly fauna in Solomon Islands, 81-86. Management of Fruit Flies in the Pacific. A Regional Symposium, Nadi, Fiji. ACIAR Proceedings No. 76.