Cucumis melo L.

McQuate, Grant T. & Liquido, Nicanor J., 2013, Annotated World Bibliography of Host Fruits of Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (289), pp. 1-61 : 13-14

Cucumis melo L.

GRIN Nomen number: 404410

Family: Cucurbitaceae

Common Name: Armenian cucumber (English), cantaloupe (English), casaba melon (English), chamoe (Transcribed Korean), dudaim melon (English), garden-lemon (English), honeydew melon (English), mango melon (English), melão (Portuguese), melon (English), mélon (French), melon (Swedish), melon-apple (English), muskmelon (English), netted melon (English), nutmeg melon (English), orange melon (English), Oriental pickling melon (English), Persian melon (English), phut ( India), pickling melon (English), pomegranate melon (English), Queen Anne’s pocket melon (English), rock melon (English-Australia), serpent melon (English), snake melon (English), snake-cucumber (English), snap melon (English), stink melon (English), sweet melon (English), tian gua (Transcribed Chinese), ulcardo melon (English), vegetable-orange (English), vine-peach (English), wild cucumber (English), winter melon (English), Zuckermelone (German).

Native: AFRICA - Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda; West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D’Ivoire; Ghana; Niger; Senegal; South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zimbabwe; Southern Africa: South Africa; Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles; ASIA-TEMPERATE - Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Western Asia: Iran; China: China; Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; ASIA-TROPICAL - Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; North Indian Ocean: Maldives; Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; AUSTRALASIA - Australia: Australia; PACIFIC - Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Southwestern Pacific: Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga.

Naturalized: widely naturalized in tropics.

Cultivated: cultivated worldwide.

Listing Only: Harris et al. 2001; Liquido et al. 1994;

Nishida 1985a.

Narayanan and Batra 1960; Vargas and

Cucumis melo subsp. conomon (Thunb.) Greb. , see Cucumis melo L. or Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino

Cucumis melo var. utilissimus (Roxb.) Duthie and J. B. Fuller , see Cucumis melo L. or Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino