Ceratitis
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Subgenus CERATITIS —Nominotypical subgenus
Ceratitis (Ceratitis) capitata (Wiedemann, 1824)
Tephritis capitata Wiedemann, 1824: 55. Unspecified type. India (mare indico [probably Is. in Indian Ocean]) (ZMUC). Ceratitis citriperda MacLeay, 1829: 482. Syntypes. Azores (St. Michael [São Miguel]) (MMS).
Ceratitis hispanica Breme, 1842: 188. Syntypes?. Spain (Malaga: environs of Malaga) (IMZ?).
Pardalaspis asparagi Bezzi, 1924a: 480. Holotype. South Africa (Cape: East London) (SANC).
Ceratitis citripeda Efflatoun, 1924a: 47. Misspelling of citriperda MacLeay.
Distribution. AF: tropical Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion. AU: w. Australia, Hawaii. NT: Neotropics. PA: s. Europe, Middle East, North Africa (introduced).
Egyptian localities. Widespread throughout the country, particularly: Coastal Strip: Dekheila, Ramleh. Eastern Desert: Gebel Asfar. Fayoum: Al-zawya, El-Bassyonia, Kom Oshim, Tamia. Lower Nile Valey and Delta: Abu Rawash, Cairo, Damietta, Giza, Kafr Hakim, Kerdassa, Mansouriya, Mazghouna, Shubramant, Simbellaween. Sinai: El-Arish, Wadi El-Lega. Western Desert: Dakhla Oasisi & Kharga Oasis, Nubaria, Wadi El-Natroun. Upper Nile Valley: Assiout, Luxor.
Host plants. A wide range of host plants, including: Apple (Malus pumila Miller), apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.), cantaloupe (Cucumis melo var. cantalupo Ser.), citrus (Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f.), cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), date palm trees (Phoenix dactylifera L.), eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), fig (Ficus carica L.), grapes (Vitis vinifera L.), guava (Psidium guajava L.), mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco), mango (Mangifera indica L.), orange (Citrus x sinensis (L.) Osbeck), papaya (Carica papaya L.), peach (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch), squash (Cucurbita sp.), sour orange (Citrus aurantium L.), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Sources: Hendrichs & Hendrichs (1990); Amro & Abd El-Galil (2008); Amin & Saafan (2013); El-Fattah & Darwish (2016).
Dates of collection. Throughout the year, however the higher appearance was in spring and automn.
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- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1824) Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. eregio typoguapheo scholarum, Kiliae [= Kiel], 60 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 77322
- MacLeay, W. S. (1829) Notice of Ceratitis citriperda, an insect very destructive to oranges. Zoological Journal, 4, 475 - 482.
- Breme, M. de (1842) Note sur le genre Ceratitis de M. MacLeay, ordre de Dipteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 11, 183 - 190.
- Bezzi, M. (1924 a) South African trypaneid Diptera in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum, 19, 449 - 577.
- Efflatoun, H. C. (1924 a) A monograph of Egyptian Diptera, Part II., Fam. Trypaneidae. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 2 (2), 1 - 132.
- Hendrichs, J. & Hendrichs, M. A. (1990) Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Nature: Location and Diel Pattern of Feeding and Other Activities on Fruiting and Nonfruiting Hosts and Nonhosts. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 83 (3), 632 - 641.
- Amro, M. & Abd El-Galil, F. (2008) Infestation predisposition and relative susceptibility of certain edible fruit crops to the native and invading fruit flies (Dptera: Tephritidae) in the New Valley Oases, Egypt. Assiut University Bulletin For Environmental Researches, 11 (1), 89 - 97.
- Amin, A. & Saafan, M. (2013) Date palm fruits as a potential host of the peach and Mediterranean fruit flies in Fayoum Governorate. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research, 91 (1), 51 - 63.
- Abd El-Fattah, A. & Darwish, E. (2016) Relative susceptibility of some fruits to the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) and peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Egypt. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 4 (4), 42 - 48.