EPPO Global Database

Bactrocera tryoni(DACUTR)

Distribution details in Australia

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2017: Present, restricted distribution
From CABI Pest map 110 (1999): Present, restricted distribution
From NPPO: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
From country itself (1992): indigenous in Queensland. Area freedom in New South Wales, Victoria; does not occur in Tasmania, South Australia or Western Australia (eradicated from Western Australia in 1992); may hybridize with B. aquilonis in Northern Territory. An outbreak in Adelaide (South Australia) in 1993-02 was eradicated by the Sterile Insect Technique.

First reported in the Sydney region in the late 1800s. Established in central Queensland and New South Wales, as well as in Alice Springs and Darwin. Sporadic outbreaks occur in Victoria and South Australia. A single outbreak was detected in 1989 in Perth (Western Australia) and was successfuly eradicated. The species status of B. aquilonis (possibly part of B. tryoni) is still debated, but this species occurs in Northern Territory and northern part of Western Australia (Clarke et al., 2011).
References
* Clarke AR, Powell KS, Weldon CW, Taylor PW (2011) The ecology of Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae): what do we know to assist pest management? Annals of Applied Biology 158(1), 26-54.

* Dominiak BC (2011) Review of grapes Vitis sp. as an occasional host for Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae). Crop Protection 30(8), 958-961.

* Dominiak BC, R Mapson (2017) Revised distribution of Bactrocera tryoni in Eastern Australia and effect on possible incursions of Mediterranean fruit fly: development of Australia's Eastern trading block. Journal of Economic Entomology 110(6), 2459–2465.

* NPPO of Australia (1992).

* Osborne R, Meats A, Frommer M, Sved JA, Drew RAI, Robson MK (1997) Australian distribution of 17 species of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) caught in cue lure traps in February 1994. Australian Journal of Entomology 36(1), 45-50.