Bactrocera curvipennis (Froggatt, 1909)

Mille, Christian, 2008, Re-assessment of the fauna of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) and their host fruits in New Caledonia, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 251-260 : 253

Bactrocera curvipennis (Froggatt, 1909)

This species was originally described from Fiji but Drew (1989) designed the lectotype invalid and that the species was not from the type locality (Norrbom et al. 1999b). Later, it was recorded from Vanuatu and New Caledonia by Drew (1989), Hardy & Foote (1996) and Norrbom et al. 1999b). The status of this species remains unclear because of an old collect of three specimens by Cheesman in the Island of Aneytum in the South of Vanuatu, in November 1930, one of the islands closest to New Caledonia. However during subsequent surveys in the seventies and eighties, this species had never been caught in trapping network or in fruit rearing ( Allwood et al. 1997). For the moment, currently known distribution includes therefore only New Caledonia and the species is then considered endemic to New Caledonia (SPC & Contributors 2002).