Natural Enemies of True Fruit Flies - Phytosanitary Resources

Jeffrey N. L. Stibick
Parasites and Predators of the Tephritidae - Table 2
Species Parasites/Predators Notes
Eucoila sp. A Cynipid parasite from Mauritius (Orian & Moutia, 1960).
Isurgus sp. An Ichneumonid parasite from Africa (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Aphaereta minuta A Braconid larval-pupal parasite (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Opius fletcheri A Braconid larval-pupal parasite (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Trybliographa sp. A Cynipid entoparasitoid from Malaya (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Trybliographa daci A Cynipid endoparasitoid from Pakistan, also parasitizing Dacus dorsalis
(Cals-Usciati, et al., 1985)
Spalangia
philippinensis
A Pteromalid pupal parasite est. in Hawaii (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Sphegigaster sp. A Pteromalid parasite (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Belonuchus
A Staphylinid larval predator from Brazil, reared ex lab (in bitter orange) in
rufipennis
Italy (Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Doryctobracon A Braconid parasite from Venezuela (Katiyar, et al., 1995) from Guatemala
crawfordi
(Ovruski, et al., 2000)
Opius incisi A Braconid larval parasite found ex Medfly in Hawaii (Clancy, 1952).
Pheidole
An ant (Formicidae) predator, which kills large numbers of larvae (Kapoor,
megacephala
1993).
Ectemnius
An adult Crabronine wasp predator which store the prey as food for the young
timidoventris
(Kapoor, 1993).
Crabo unicolor An adult Crabronine wasp predator which store the prey as food for the young
(Kapoor, 1993).
Ceratitis catoirii Psyttalia
A Braconid parasite from Mauritius which apparently controls this pest (Orian
insignipennis
& Moutia, 1960; Wharton, et al., 1999).
Ceratitis colae Galesus silvestrii A Diapriid pupal parasite from Nigeria bred in lab (Silvestri, 1914)
Splangia afra A Pteromalid pupal parasite from Nigeria bred in lab (Silvestri, 1914; Boucek,
1963).
Tetrastichus giffardii A widely diffused Chalcid egg-larval parasite from Nigeria, Dahomey, Victoria,
Tanganyika (Silvestri, 1914; Thompson, 1943). Introduced to Mexico, to
Peru to Bolivia (Rogg & Camacho, 2003).
Aeromyrma vorax An ant (Formicidae) predator of pupae (Silvestri, 1914).
Opius perproximus A Braconid larval parasite from West Africa (Wharton & Gilstrap, 1983).
Coptera silvestrii A Psiline parasite from Africa (Benin, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya,
Monzambique, Zululand), introduced to Hawaii (Yoder & Wharton, 2002).
Ceratitis
contramedia
Biosteres giffardii A Braconid parasite from Africa (Wharton & Gilstrap, 1983).
Coptera silvestrii A Psiline parasite from Africa (Benin, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya,
Monzambique, Zululand), introduced to Hawaii (Yoder & Wharton, 2002).
Ceratitis cosyra Opius cosyrae A Braconid parasite from northern Africa, intr. through the Mediterranean
(Wharton & Gilstrap, 1983; Thompson, 1943; Narayanan & Chawla, 1962).
Opius perproximus A Braconid larval parasite from West Africa (Silvestri, 1914; Wharton &
Gilstrap, 1983; Narayanan & Chawla, 1962; Steck, et al., 1986).
Biosteres fullawayi A Braconid parasite from the Cameroons (Steck, et al., 1986).
Ceratitis cosyra Coptera silvestrii A Psiline parasite from Africa (Benin, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya,
(Cont.)
Monzambique, Zululand), introduced to Hawaii (Yoder & Wharton, 2002).
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