Terminalia catappa

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 : 39

Terminalia catappa (L.)

GRIN Nomen number: 36334

Family: Combretaceae

Common Name: almendro de la India (Spanish), amendoeira (Portuguese-Brazil), amendoeira-da- Índia (Portuguese), badam ( India), badamier (French), chapéu-de-sol (Portuguese-Brazil), country-almond (English), Hu-kwang (Thai), Indian-almond (English), indischer Mandelbaum (German), Katappenbaum (German), Malabar- almond (English), sea-almond (English), tropical-almond (English).

Native: AFRICA - Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; ASIA-TEMPERATE - China: China - Guangdong, Yunnan; Eastern Asia: Taiwan; ASIA-TROPICAL - Indian Subcontinent: India; Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Vietnam; Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; AUSTRALASIA - Australia: Australia - Northern Territory; Queensland; PACIFIC - Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu.

Naturalized: widely naturalized in tropics.

Cultivated: widely cultivated in tropics.

Field Infestation: Somta et al. 2010: 38 B. latifrons pupae were recovered from a total of 1667 yellow (ripe) fruits collected at the Kamphaeng Saen Campus of Kasetsart University in Thailand from December 2007 to December 2008. No B. latifrons pupae were recovered from 318 green (immature) fruits.