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Species composition of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Citrus Museum at the Agricultural Research Centre (ARC), Kade, Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2012

Caroline Ngichop Foba ,
Kwame Afreh-Nuamah ,
Maxwell Kelvin Billah  and
Daniel Obeng-Ofori
Caroline Ngichop Foba*
Affiliation:
icipe – African Insect Science for Food and Health, PO Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science (ARPPIS), Sub-regional Centre for West Africa, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Kwame Afreh-Nuamah
Affiliation:
African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science (ARPPIS), Sub-regional Centre for West Africa, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Maxwell Kelvin Billah
Affiliation:
African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science (ARPPIS), Sub-regional Centre for West Africa, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Daniel Obeng-Ofori
Affiliation:
African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science (ARPPIS), Sub-regional Centre for West Africa, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
*
*E-mail: chopcarolilyn@yahoo.ca
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Abstract

To determine species composition of fruit flies on six cultivated varieties of citrus (Late Valencia orange, Pineapple orange, Ovaleto, Mediterranean sweet lemon, Satsuma tangerine and Ortanique orange), a study was conducted at the Agricultural Research Centre, Kade, Ghana. Improvised Lynfield baited traps (methyl eugenol (ME) and citrus juice (CJ)) and McPhail baited traps (trimedlure (TML)) were used. Ripe infested fruits from the selected varieties were also collected and incubated. Tephritid fruit fly species from trapping were identified as Bactrocerainvadens Drew, Tsuruta & White, Bactroceracucurbitae (Coquillet), Ceratitisditissima Munro, C. anonae Graham, C. capitata (Wiedemann), C. bremii Guerin-Meneville, Dacusbivittatus (Bigot), D. punctatifrons Karsch and Trirhithrum Bezzi. A total of 35,247 fruit flies were collected from the traps, with densities of 10.38, 1.00 and 0.27 flies/trap/day for ME, CJ and TML traps, respectively. All incubated fruit varieties showed co-habitation of three different species (C. ditissima, C. anonae and B. invadens) in each of them. In addition, one Dacus vertebratus was obtained from dropped Late Valencia fruits. Moreover, three individual Fopius caudatus (Szèpligeti) parasitoids were recorded from the infested incubated fruits. Ranking of the different fruit fly species from infested incubated host fruits was as follows: C. ditissima (476) >C. anonae (74) > B. invadens (71) and D. vertebratus (1). Competitive ability among the invasive flies in their process to infest the six citrus varieties was observed. These findings could serve as a useful starting point for the development of a reliable catalogue of host diversity, fruit fly species diversity and associated natural enemy records in Ghana.

Keywords

species compositiontephritid fliescitrus varietiesrankingFopius caudatus
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Research Paper
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 12 - 23
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Copyright © ICIPE 2012

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