Bactrocera (Notodacus) xanthodes
Creators: name: Leblanc, Luc
name: Vueti, Ema Tora
name: Drew, Richard A. I.
name: Allwood, Allan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Bactrocera
Bactrocera xanthodes

description: Bactrocera (Notodacus) xanthodes (Broun) (Fig. 29)
Distribution: American Samoa, Cook Islands (Southern group), Fiji Islands, French Polynesia (Austral Group), Nauru (eradicated in 1999), Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna. Male lure: Methyl eugenol.
ANACARDIACEAE Mangifera indica (P): Cook Islands (1); Nauru (1/117) (prior to eradication); Tonga (9/85).
ANNONACEAE Annona cherimola: Cook Islands (1). Annona muricata:
Samoa (6/7); Tonga (1/40).
APOCYNACEAE Cerbera manghas: Tonga (1/50). Ochrosia oppositifolia (P): Fiji (5/56); Tonga (10/90).
CALOPHYLLACEAE Calophyllum inophyllum: Cook Islands (1).
CARICACEAE Carica papaya (P): Cook Islands (4); Fiji (8/159); Samoa (74/86); Tonga (28/77). The Fiji records are likely based on
sampling overripe fruit. Waimanalo and Sunrise papaya are
not hosts to B. xanthodes in Fiji, until at least half ripe
(Heimoana et al. 1997).
COMBRETACEAE Terminalia catappa: Samoa (1/114); Tonga (1/72). Terminalia samoensis: Samoa (1/2).
CONVOLVULACEAE Stictocardia tiliifolia: Tonga (1/3).
CUCURBITACEAE Citrullus lanatus (P): Tonga (1/11). Watermelon can be infested by B. xanthodes when damaged at its blossom
end, but non–host status testing has shown undamaged fruit
not to be suitable hosts to B.xanthodes in Tonga (Heimoana
et al. 1997).
EBENACEAE Diospyros vera: Tonga (1/37).
EUPHORBIACEAE Excoecaria agallocha (P): Tonga (Litsinger et al. 1991).
LAURACEAE Persea americana: Cook Islands (2); Samoa (10/12); Tonga (7/33).
LECYTHIDACEAE Barringtonia edulis (P): Fiji (22/47). Barringtonia racemosa: Fiji (1/30). Barringtonia seaturae: Fiji (2/2).
LEGUMINOSAE Inocarpus fagifer (P): Cook Islands (2); Fiji (Hinckley 1965); Wallis & Futuna (1/6).
MALVACEAE Theobroma cacao: Fiji (1/34).
MORACEAE Artocarpus altilis (P): American Samoa (1/1); Cook Islands (46); Fiji (31/123); Nauru (7/53) (prior to eradication); Samoa
(18/23); Tonga (14/34); Wallis & Futuna (4/6). Artocarpus
heterophyllus (P): Cook Islands (3); Fiji (4/39); Samoa (5/6).
PASSIFLORACEAE Passiflora edulis: Tonga (1/21). Passiflora ligularis: Tonga (12/55). Passiflora quadrangularis (P): Fiji (Simmonds
1936); Tonga (Litsinger et al. 1991); Samoa (1/1).
RUTACEAE Citrus japonica: Fiji (1/146). Citrus maxima (P): Fiji (Simmonds 1936). Citrus reticulata (P): Fiji (2/137); Tonga
(1/49). Citrus sinensis: Tonga (1/61).
SANTALACEAE Santalum yasi: Tonga (1/15).
SAPOTACEAE Burckella richii (P): Tonga (Litsinger et al. 1991). Chrysophyllum cainito: Tonga (1/9). Pouteria caimito:
Samoa (2/5).
SOLANACEAE Lycopersicon esculentum (P): Fiji (Hinckley 1965); Tonga (3/33). Solanum mauritianum: Cook Islands (2).
description: Published as part of Leblanc, Luc, Vueti, Ema Tora, Drew, Richard A. I. & Allwood, Allan J., 2012, Host Plant Records for Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini) in the Pacific Islands, pp. 11-53 in Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 44 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8159403