Bactrocera (Bactrocera) bancroftii (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 : 149-150

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) bancroftii (Tryon)

Chaetodacus bancroftii: Tryon, 1927: 199–201 .

Strumeta bancroftii: May, 1963: 43 , 50.

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) bancroftii: Drew, 1989: 91–92 .

Diagnosis. – A medium sized species (wing length 6.0 mm); face with a pair of medium sized circular black spots; scutum dull black; postpronotal lobe and notopleuron yellow; each lateral postsutural vitta broad, parallel sided and ending at ia. seta; mesopleural stripe of medium width ending midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. seta dorsally; scutellum yellow except for a pale fuscous to fuscous apical spot in some specimens; wings with cells bc and c very pale fulvous, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, costal band only just overlapping R 2+3 and very narrow beyond extremity of R 2+3, cubital streak broad and fuscous; legs with all segments entirely fulvous; all abdominal terga generally orange-brown, shining spots orange-brown.

Attractant. – Methyl eugenol (a weak response).

Hosts. – Maclura cochinchinensis (family Moraceae ) and Morus nigra (mulberry – family Moraceae ).

Distribution. – Type locality: Australia (Gympie District). Previously recorded: Australia (Coastal areas of Queensland), Torres Strait Islands (Baxter, Yam, Yorke) ( Drew, 1989). New Record: Papua New Guinea (Lae, Morobe Province).