Bactrocera (Bactrocera) musae (Tryon)

Drew, R. A. I., Ma, Jing, Smith, S. & Hughes, J. M., 2011, The Taxonomy And Phylogenetic Relationships Of Species In The Bactrocera Musae Complex Of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) In Papua New Guinea, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59 (2), pp. 145-162 : 151

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) musae (Tryon)

Chaetodacus musae: Tryon, 1927: 197–199 .

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) musae: Drew, 1989: 92–93 .

See Drew (1989) for complete list of synonyms.

Diagnosis. – A medium sized species (wing length 6.0 mm); face with a pair of medium sized spots; scutum black; postpronotal lobe and notopleuron yellow; each lateral postsutural vitta medium width and narrowing slightly to end at ia. seta; mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and postpronotal lobe dorsally; wings with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, fuscous costal band overlapping R 2+3 and generally of uniform colouration (may be diffuse colouration under basal 2 / 3 of R 2+3), narrow fuscous cubital streak; legs with segments fulvous except hind tibiae dark fuscous; abdominal terga III–V generally orange-brown with narrow anterolateral dark markings on tergum III but may have a range of colours between a narrow black ‘T’ and a narrow medial longitudinal vitta over terga IV and V, shining spots orange-brown.

Attractant. – Methyl eugenol.

Hosts. – Musa species (major hosts) (family Musaceae ). Also recorded occasionally from fruits of eight other plant families ( Hancock et al., 2000).

Distribution. – Type locality: Australia (Meringa, North Queensland).

Previously recorded: Australia (Northeast Queensland, Torres Strait Islands), Papua New Guinea (East New Britain, mainland Papua New Guinea).