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Protein Stores Regulate When Reproductive Displays Begin in the Male Caribbean Fruit Fly

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
Many animals exhibit reproductive behavior that requires expenditure of valuable nutrients. In males of many species, competitive energetically demanding displays and the development of sexual ornaments require prior accumulation of nutrient stores ...
Clancy A. Short, John D. Hatle, Daniel A. Hahn   +2 more
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Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Fauna of Ordu (Turkey) Province

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2021
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are one of the most populous families of Diptera. In this study, it was aimed to determine the fauna of fruit flies in Ordu province. Adult specimens were collected from the research region in 2016-2017 years.
Murat Kütük, Ümit Katrancı
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Biological Control of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Argentina: Releases of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Fruit-Producing Semi-Arid Areas of San Juan [PDF]

, 2014
The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) is one of the major pests of fruit crops in Argentina and it is a phytosanitary barrier to the export of fresh fruits.
Bezdjian, Laura Patricia, Escobar, Jorge, Lara, Natalia, Murúa Bruna, Albérico Fernando, Ovruski Alderete, Sergio Marcelo, Rubio, Jose Luis, Schliserman, Pablo, Suárez, Lorena, Tareti, Gustavo, Van Nieuwenhove, Guido Alejandro   +9 more
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Effect of Dietary Components on Larval Life History Characteristics in the Medfly (Ceratitis capitata: Diptera, Tephritidae) [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The ability to respond to heterogenous nutritional resources is an important factor in the adaptive radiation of insects such as the highly polyphagous Medfly.
BA Edgar, BI Katsoyannos, C Navarro-Campos, C Plácido-Silva M do, CL Chang, CL Chang, CM Canato, D Nestel, D Nestel, D Nestel, DA Krainacker, DC Fries, DS Tolmasky, FS Zucoloto, FS Zucoloto, G Davidowitz, G Davidowitz, G Davidowitz, G Gasperi, GJ Quigley, HF Nijhout, HF Nijhout, HF Nijhout, JA Cangussu, JA Cangussu, JA Cangussu, JR Carey, MDW Piper, NI Morrison, PW Taylor, R Kaspi, RC Grandison, RJ Prokopy, SJ Simpson, SJ Simpson, T Hothorn, Tracey Chapman, William J. Etges, William J. Nash, X Thibert-Plante   +39 more
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Faunistic study of the fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in the United Arab Emirates, with a new record and an updated checklist [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2020
Collecting of terphritid fruit flies at four sites in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), resulted in the presence of eleven species. Capparimyia savastani is reported for the first time from UAE fauna. The number of UAE Tephritidae fauna is increased to 34.
Saeed Mohamadzade Namin, Huw Roberts
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Notes on the frugivorous fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) fauna of western Africa, with description of a new Dacus species [PDF]

, 2013
The species richness of the frugivorous fruit fly fauna of western African (in particular of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria) is discussed.
DeMeyer, Marc, Goodger, Kim F.M., White, Ian M.   +2 more
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Serratia marcescens as a bacterial pathogen of Rhagoletis pomonella flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2003
A nonpigmenting strain of Serratia marcescens Bizio isolated from dead and apparently diseased wild apple maggot flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), was shown to be pathogenic to healthy apple maggot flies upon ingestion.
Carol R. LAUZON, Teresa G. BUSSERT, Robert E. SJOGREN, Ronald J. PROKOPY   +3 more
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Augmentative releases of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) control in a fruit-growing region of Argentina [PDF]

, 2016
Field-open augmentative releases were conducted to assess the efficacy of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) for the regulation of Ceratitis capitata (Weidemann) infesting Ficus carica (L.) in a commercial area located in a fruit-producing irrigated ...
Bilbao, Mariana, Murúa, Fernando, Ovruski Alderete, Sergio Marcelo, Pantano, Valeria, Schliserman, Pablo, Suárez, Lorena, Sánchez, Guillermo, Taret, Gustavo Abelardo Ariel, Van Nieuwenhove, Guido Alejandro   +8 more
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New data on the distribution and host plants of tephritid fies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Armenia and selected regions of Russia [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень
Urophora cuspidata (Meigen, 1826) and Tephritis nozarii Mohamadzade, 2012 are recorded for the frst time for Armenia, and the latter species for the frst time for Transcaucasia.
D.A. Evstigneev, A.B. Ruchin, M.N. Esin
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Annotated checklist and illustrated key to braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of economically important fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil [PDF]

, 2018
The braconid parasitoids of fruit-infesting flies have been more intensively studied from the middle to late 1990s, when taxonomic research was restarted in Brazil.
Costa, Valmir A., Fidelis Marinho, Claudia, Zucchi, Roberto A.   +2 more
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