EPPO Global Database

Bactrocera tryoni(DACUTR)

Distribution details in Australia (Western Australia)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 1997: Absent, pest eradicated
First recorded in: 1995
Eradication in: 1996
From CABI Pest map 110 (1999): Absent, pest eradicated
From NPPO: Absent, pest eradicated
Comments
Already said to be eradicated in 1995.

EPPO Reporting Service (1997/177) : 20th Session of APPPC, Chiang Mai (TH). Eradicated again in 1996 after a further outbreak in 1995.
References
* Ayling G (1989) The Queensland fruit fly eradication campaign. Western Australia Journal of Agriculture 30, 159-162.
------- Under eradication.

* Dadour IR, Yeates DK, Postle AC (1992) Two rapid diagnostic techniques for distinguishing Mediterranean fruit fly from Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 85(1), 208-211.
------- Under eradication.

* NPPO of Australia (1997).

* Sproul AN, Broughton S, Monzu N (Editors) (?1992) Queensland fruit fly eradication campaign appendix 5, calendar of events. Western Australia Department of Agriculture, Perth, Australia.
------- Detected in Perth Metropolitan area in 1989, eradicated in Nov. 1991.